Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Where do we come from? How did our planet form? How do we know about the history of our solar system? You can explore these universal questions in ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes Water is found in the ocean, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Water exists as solid ice and in liquid form. ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems (3-5) ...

From its vantage point high above Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has completed this year’s grand tour of the outer solar system – returning crisp images that complement current and ...

Welcome to “Tour the solar system.” In this series, we give you an overview of the objects in our stellar neighborhood. This video focuses on Neptune, the most distant planet from the Sun. Yes, ...

Smithsonian Associates offers a rich collection of curated programs this month Lauren Lyons Smithsonian Associates’ Grand Tour of the Solar System series treks to the Sun and the four inner ...

Update: Today's livestream of the solar system planets will now begin at 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT). Take a grand tour of the solar system tonight (Dec. 28) as each of the planets in the solar system ...

I'd hardly call most sci-fi like Star Trek or Mass Effect educational, but it's amazing how much actual science and space knowledge you can pick up from sci-fi entertainment. I've heard of Wolf 359, ...

NASA is unveiling close-up pictures of the interstellar comet that's making a quick one-and-done tour of our solar system.

Have you ever indulged the depths of your intrusive thoughts and wondered how the universe is going to smash and chew up our little planet over billions of years? Well, that’s more or less what ...