Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the world of science straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive experiment.

This set of activities teaches students about the big picture of science using Mars as an example: how to collect data, use evidence, and look at models.

This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration asks the question, how can you hit a soccer goal on the Moon from Earth? Find an answer to this question as well as many more answered by Dr. Marc.

Find out about all the planets and other solar system characteristics in this colorful, illustrated tutorial on our neighborhood in space.

A quick overview of the eight planets in our solar system.

This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides the opportunity to solve a crossword and learn about the world's biggest telescopes.

Many of the objects you can see in the night sky are stars, large objects in space that produce light. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains more than 100 billion stars. Stars are so far away that their light does not reach us for years....

Learn about gravitational waves, what causes them, and how they are detected.

This resource explores the different types of galaxies through text and images.

Explore the time line from 1960 to the 2000s about Mars Missions. Choose from news, explorations, blogs, gallery, and missions to learn more about Mars exploration.

Your science fair project may do one of three things: test an idea (hypothesis), answer a question, and/or show how nature works. Learn the steps involved in a project and get some great topic ideas.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about constellations. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the motion of the Earth with its day and night cycle, the seasons, the Earth's orbit around the Sun, and its year-long cycle.

On this site, you can learn about mysterious powerful forces that absorb light called black holes. Study the science of black holes in outer space.

Information about some of the early animal astronauts who were launched into space to help determine the effects of space travel on human beings.

Try this introduction to ideas about how the universe began and how it might end. Topics include; the big bang and its echoes, antimatter, and inflation/expansion of the universe.

This is a detailed biography of the father of modern rocketry, Robert Goddard. It explains how he lived growing up and how be became so interested in space science.

This site from IPAC is a series of images of various celestial objects and regions as viewed in infrared light. Each photo is accompanied by a caption.

This site from NASA provides a brief outline of the Gemini 4 space mission, which White flew with James A. McDivitt. Links to other NASA websites are available.

Try this at-home science experiment to learn that a glass of water molecules contains a whole lot of space.