Description: Blast off on an incredible journey through our solar system! Explore an animated, bird’s-eye view of the planets orbiting the Sun, then switch to Voyager Mode and travel from planet to planet at speeds ranging from a typical spacecraft to an imaginary five times the speed of light! Visit fascinating moons, explore the asteroid and Kuiper belts, and discover dwarf planets such as Pluto. Click on planets to learn about their atmospheres, temperatures, gravity, moons, and incredible features, including Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Saturn's rings. Explore interactive atmospheric pie charts, listen to narration, and test your knowledge with randomized online and printable scavenger hunts and Fact or Fiction challenges. An amazing interactive adventure through our solar system!

Description: Create an amazing solar system from scratch with Solar System Maker 2026! Start by choosing and naming your star, then design your own planets by customizing their colors, sizes, temperatures, atmospheres, orbital distances, and more. Add moons, spectacular planetary rings, comets, asteroids, nebulae, and even black holes! Watch your creation come alive with animated orbits, or start with a model of our actual solar system. When you're finished, unleash the ultimate Black Hole Finale and watch your entire creation spiral into oblivion—then restore it with a click! Save, print, or download your masterpiece in this interactive astronomy and creativity laboratory.

Description: MrNussbaum's Night Sky Learning Lab is an interactive astronomy adventure that lets students explore the wonders of the night sky! Choose different seasons and directions, discover and identify constellations, and watch their patterns come to life. Adjust light pollution to see how city lights affect our view of the stars, or use the interactive telescope to zoom in on planets and the Moon. Explore the Milky Way, spot shooting stars, and click celestial objects to learn fascinating facts. Students can also test their knowledge with a movable, interactive scavenger hunt featuring immediate feedback or a printable version with an answer key. Perfect for curious young astronomers!

Description: This fun game allows students to make their own northern light displays by causing the collisions of different elements.

Description: This page tells all about Polaris, otherwise known as the North Star.

Description: This great video (courtesy of NASA) describes the various regions beyond the planets.

Description: This article discusses the five dwarf planets including Pluto, MakeMake, Haumea, Eris, and Ceres.

Description: This article discusses the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Description: This article discusses the Oort Cloud.

Description: This article discusses the Kuiper Belt and its Trans-Neptunian objects.

Description: This is an in-depth article about the mysterious dark matter than dominates the universe.

Description: This is an in-depth article about the star Betelgeuse (pronounced "beetle-juice")

Description: This articles tells about the science of light years and parsecs.

Description: This powerful section provides profiles, images, and videos of some of the most incredible things about space including comets, auroras, supernovae, black holes, and much more.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Amazing Wonders of Space Section

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Amazing Wonders of Space Section

Description: This page tells all about the star explosions known as supernovas.

Description: This page tells all about solar systems.

Description: This is interactive chart featuring the moon phases. Students simply click and learn.

Description: This page tells the story of Anne Hodges - who was hit by a rare meteorite inside her home!

Description: This page tells all about the differences between meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites.

Description: This page tells all about the 76-year cycle of Halley's Comet.

Description: This page tells all about the mysterious periodic comet called Hale-Bopp.

Description: This page tells all about galaxies.

Description: This page tells all about mysterious, powerful, and possibly world-ending black holes.

Description: This page tells all about the beautiful northern lights, otherwise known as auroras.

Description: This page tells all about the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the three interactive star charts.

Description: This is an interactive winter sky. Students simply click the name of a constellation and watch it form. The history and information about each constellation is also provided.

Description: This interactive star chart explains the different types of stars. Students just click and learn.

Description: This interactive chart explains the life cycle of a star. Students simply click and learn.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the two lunar interactive charts.