Explore space with these fun solar system worksheets. Kids will learn about planets, moon phases, and space exploration through hands-on activities. Perfect for home or classroom use, these ...

Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of the solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled with astonishing spectacle ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...

The first solar eclipse of the year will happen tomorrow. No one will see a total eclipse, but partial views will be visible in parts of North America, Europe, Africa, northern Asia, South America, ...

Though costly to implement, solar energy offers a clean, renewable source of power. 3 min read Solar energy is the technology used to harness the sun's energy and make it useable. As of 2011 ...

Pinhole Projectors: A simple pinhole projector allows children to view the eclipse indirectly. This can be as easy as punching a tiny hole in a piece of cardboard and holding it in the sunlight—a ...

Take a look behind the scenes and find out how The Planets team brought the worlds of the Solar System to life. BBC Two’s The Planets features spectacular reconstructions of the most dramatic ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.