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Come to the Tucson Earth Day Festival!

Tucson Earth Day Festival at Children's Museum

Happy Earth Day—a special day when all of us should focus on the importance of our planet and what we can do to improve its health.

Earth Day was created in 1970 in hopes of bringing about environmental reform in America. It began in the United States with schools celebrating—20 million... Read more

Earth Day Is April 22

Happy Earth Day—a special day when all of us should focus on the importance of our planet and what we can do to improve its health.

Earth Day was created in 1970 in hopes of bringing about environmental reform in America. It began in the United States with schools celebrating—20 million... Read more

North Pole Takes a Stroll

Magnetic north is one of three “north poles” on our planet.

Photo by NASA/JSC

What do you think of when you hear about the North Pole? For most of us, images of Santa Claus, reindeer and the greatest toy workshop ever all spring to mind.

There is actually a... Read more

Amazing Unmanned Spacecraft

Top Photo: Chang’e-4 spacecraft on the far side of the moon

InSight Lands on Mars!

Have you ever wondered whether there are quakes or temblors on Mars? What about how the planet formed?

Scientists intend to answer those questions and more. The InSight lander touched down at the end of November after a seven-month journey to the Red Planet.

According to NASA,... Read more

Music and wonderful smells fill the air, and skulls and skeletons are everywhere—some made of sugar, others made of paper-mache. And for some reason, the cemetery is aglow with families decorating with bright orange flowers and cleaning the gravesites of loved ones.

Welcome to “El Día de... Read more

Ruby Slippers Found

Photo courtesy of the FBI

It seems the Wicked Witch of the West wasn’t the only one trying to get her hands on Dorothy’s ruby slippers. The ICONIC shoes, seen in dazzling Technicolor in the 1939... Read more

Detecting Fake News

Gigantic 100-foot Gila monster found on Tucson road!

Phoenix buried in snow after week-long August blizzard!

Sometimes fake news is easy to spot because it’s so silly and unbelievable you know it’s made up. But sometimes it is not quite as easy to separate fact from fiction.... Read more