Upon viewing the Our Distant Neighbors video series, students will be able to do the following: Create a simple diagram of the sun and the orbital paths of each planet around the sun. Label each of the eight planets. Explain that the sun...

Scientists are interested in Iapetus, Saturn's third largest moon, because of its massive landslides, long-runout landslides that can travel horizontally as much as 30 times their vertical falling distance. On Earth, landslides typically...

NASA says it might use a steam-powered hopping robot to explore the icy terrain of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The Planets Song for kids is a science song that teaches young children all about the planets in our solar system. The Planets song helps children remember the names of the planets and their order in our solar system. The Planets Song is...

This live-action video program is about the word planet. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word planet through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...

This 'chute is out of this world! Take a trip through the solar system with the Planetary Parachute, learn the different planets, work together as a team and get an arm workout the whole time.

New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its rings at a rate which researchers describe as a "worst-case-scenario."

Dr. Leonard A. Cole is an expert on bioterrorism and on terror medicine. He is an adjunct professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Emergency Medicine) and at Rutgers University-Newark (Political Science). At the medical school he...

Scientists have used new measurements to calculate the mass of Saturn's rings to estimate their age, which is 10 to 100 million years old, according to the Berkeley News.

With a thick atmosphere, clouds, a rain cycle and giant lakes, Saturn's large moon Titan is a surprisingly Earthlike place. But unlike on Earth, Titan's surface is far too cold for liquid water - instead, Titan's clouds, rain, and...

The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and...

Here we discuss the role of Astrology in Renaissance Medicine while looking at Albrecht Durer's famous print from 1514. The plate can be found in the Staatliche Kunsthalle gallery in Karlsruhe Germany.

The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and...

Astronomers have used new and archival datasets from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
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Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar system. So what has it seen? Images from Hubble / NASA / ESA.

Dragonfly is a NASA mission to explore the chemistry and habitability of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The fourth mission in the New Frontiers line, Dragonfly will send an autonomously-operated...

In this video, we explore the moon Enceladus, one of Saturn's largest moons. With its icy surface and potential cryo volcanic activity, Enceladus has captured the interest of scientists. Its unique features and the presence of water...

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Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star that may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity.



The planet,...

A total solar eclipse passed across North America on August 21, 2017. Are there other total solar eclipses in the solar system?

In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” one of the brightest...

When she was a little girl, Carrie Anderson dreamed of becoming an astronomer. Now, as a space scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Carrie studies the atmosphere on Titan, one of Saturn's moons and the second largest moon...

Astronomers seem to have revealed a puzzling detail in the way dark matter behaves.

They found small, dense concentrations of dark matter that bend and magnify light much more strongly than...

Dr. Amy Simon has always been fascinated with space. From a young age she dreamed of lifting off in the space shuttle, just like her hero, astronaut Sally Ride. Over the years her interest in space remained, and...