Nasa Star Child: Saturn, the Ringed Planet (Level 1)

This NASA teacher's guide provides educators with background information and classroom activities about black holes. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

Why do Saturn and the other gas giants have rings? Hank reveals the Roche limit as the cause, the distance within which gas planets would fail to hold together due to their own gravity. At this particular distance, orbiting materials...

An introductory site with information about planet Saturn, with a good glossary, a brief quiz, and links for more information. Printable version also available.

Explore the rings of Saturn! Space scholars discover the immense Saturn system through an interactive lesson. The activity, part of PBS's Space series for grades six through eight, features images captured by the Cassini spacecraft of...

A general introduction to Mars. Includes a glossary of terms and two images of Mars. Many interspersed links to more graphics and more detailed information about the planet Mars. Also includes a printable version and links to other...

This article for younger students introduces the Hubble Space Telescope and what it is doing in outer space.

StarChild presents biographies of people who have contributed to space exploration from Tycho Brahe to Sally Ride.

Here at this site from NASA you can learn about the planet Jupiter! Read, or listen to, what makes Jupiter so special in our solar system.

Get to know your next door neighbor in space. An introduction to Mars, the Red Planet. Vocabulary words linked to glossary of terms. Printable version available.

A description of the missions of Chandra. There is also an audio song. Glossary, graphics and printable version of page included.