Aurora Australis over Lake Tekapo

The Earth’s atmosphere is a layer of gases held close to its surface by gravity. It plays a crucial role...

Stars like our Sun are made of ionised gas known as plasma. In fact, space is dominated by plasma –...

Weather is ever present, ever changing and always interesting.

Air is the medium in which we live. A good understanding of the nature and properties of this substance will...

In early March 2012, two solar flares erupted, sending a streaming cloud of charged particles (known as a coronial mass...

The Science Learning Hub has lots of resources for primary teachers related to the night sky in the Planet Earth...

Aotearoa has world-famous lakes – for example, Lakes Taupō, Rotorua and Wakatipu – but there are a huge number tucked...