A university-level course that looks at the structure of the solar system, the sun, the planets, and other bodies in space. Includes course readings, assignments, and study notes.

A activity collection covering plate tectonics, with some structural geology and planetary science projects. The PDF files include activities, hand outs, maps, and directions for building a simple seismometer and seismograph. Also...

A detailed chronology of all Russian and American attempts at lunar and planetary exploration. Contains links to each individual spacecraft.

Kepler's Laws 1,2,3 including eccentricity of elliptical orbits. Good for reviewing planetary motions (NYS Earth Science).

Studies involving earth sciences, marine sciences and oceanography.

This asteroid fact sheet, supplied by the National Space Science Data Center, provides a table of information on selected asteroids, complete with commentary when appropriate.

Bill Nye's Online Science Lab offers home demos for planetary, physical, and life science, a "Question of the Week," e-cards, episode guides, and lots of fun facts. A great resource for students looking for science-fair project or lab...

A collection of ten hands-on science experiments for the entire family that will help you understand concepts in astronomy. Make an astrolabe, find the size of the sun and moon, build a lunar settlement, find out about meteoroids, shadow...

The Copernican system of planetary motion is clarified in this simulation.

This is an extensive online review of the 17 Apollo missions. Resources are organized by mission number and include descriptions, mission details, photographs, and scientific data sets.

The YES I Can! Science site based out of York University in Toronto is featuring the Mars rovers. The site has all the mission background information teachers need all in one place as well as several great student activities, (Build a...

A website featuring a collection of images from NASA. Collection includes images of planets, comets, nebulae, galaxies, stars, sun, and spacecrafts.

This site, which is provided by the National Space Science Data Center of NASA, is a site with detailed information about Pluto, including planned missions to explore the planet in greater detail.

The Ring of Stellar Death captured in this space telescope image features a dying star expelling what appears to be clumpy rings of material, but turns out to be part of a planetary nebula. In addition, a detailed textual overview...

College-level planetary science course highlighting modern navigation. Course introduces the concepts and applications of navigation techniques using celestial bodies and satellite positioning systems (GPS). Course features include...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the features of Uranus.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the features of Uranus.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Compares the characteristics of inner and outer planets.

Check this resource for NASA's present, past, and future Mars' missions. Launch periods, descriptions of the mission, and related press releases are provided for each mission.

Resource has text information to compare Neptune with Earth. Includes Neptune observational data, orbital data, magnetosphere, and atmosphere. Also contains an image of Neptune that can be enlarged.

A data table of nearly everything known about the ring system of Neptune. The resource also includes an image of the rings of Neptune that can be enlarged.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus and his planetary model of the atom.

A complete university-level course in the fundamental principles of impact craters. Includes lecture notes, readings, assignments, and sample student projects.

View a chart displaying various kinds of meteorites collected on earth and read a technical article describing the manner in which they are studied. Provides a link to more information about the planet Mars and the role it plays in the...