Churchill Science

How long would it take to take a car to Mars? What about an airplane to the moon? Click the picture to find out!

Find “alien life” here on Earth and learn about where we might find similar life on planets and moons out in our solar system!

Here’s a website I can’t believe I haven’t found earlier. You can type in your weight and find out how much you weigh on other planets, the moons of Jupiter, even the Sun and other stars.

Click on the picture of Lisa’s weight on other planets to try it:

Weight is really all about gravity. I would weigh only about 9 pounds on Pluto, but 3,790 pounds on the Sun. Yet I would not be any bigger or smaller sized.

Did you see the Moon and two very bright objects in the night sky over the past few days? The two dots look like stars, but they are actually planets. Venus and Jupiter are both very close to Earth right now and so you can see them in the night sky along with the Moon.