Tag: ESA

Large Asteroid, Capable of Destroying an Entire City, Passes Between Earth and Moon in Rare Event

An asteroid, large enough to wipe out an entire city, passed between Earth and the Moon on March 25. The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that it will use the once-in-a-decade event as a training exercise for planetary defense. The asteroid, which according to the ESA measures between 130 and 230 feet, was named 2023…


Florida Ranks First in National ‘Education Freedom Report Card’

MESA, Ariz.—Florida came in as the winner on a national report card that measures how well states provide access to school choice and parental input into children’s education. Parents not only have a right to choose where children learn but what they learn, according to the 2022 Education Freedom Report Card of The Heritage Foundation,…


Florida Ranks First on National ‘Education Freedom Report Card’

MESA, Ariz.—Florida is the overall winner on a national report card that measures how well states provide access to school choice and parental input into children’s education. Parents not only have a right to choose where children learn but what they learn, according to the 2022 Education Freedom Report Card of The Heritage Foundation, a…


Senators Ponder $1.4 Billion Wildlife Recovery Bill

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard expert testimony Dec. 8 on the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), a bipartisan wildlife protection bill that would be funded by fines and other money collected from environmental or natural resource-related violations. RAWA revises the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Act, which gave the tax money collected on firearms and…


Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Captures Venus Glare

This is the moment Solar Orbiter passed Venus earlier this month. The images show a dark area of the planet that is hidden from the Sun and a bright crescent of light—glare from Venus’s incredibly bright sunlit side. The footage was filmed by the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager, SoloHI, as the spacecraft made its second…


Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Offer Arizona Parents Finances, Flexibility to Home Educate

When Michael and Jenny Clark discovered that two of their oldest children had dysgraphia and were dyslexic, they were unsuccessful in finding intensive remediation programs in their local public school, which their sons Scout and Brooks needed to learn how to read. “I was shocked because we live in one of the best school districts…