Watch the story of the New Horizons probe which was sent to explore Pluto in 2015. Pluto is a scientific goldmine. It’s located in a region of space called the Kuiper Belt, where there are many small planets and trillions of comets. It takes 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit our sun. Creating the […]

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Most moons we observe are tidally-locked to the planets they orbit. This means the same side of the moon faces the planet at all times. What if the earth were tidally-locked with the sun?!? That would mean that only one side of earth would face the sun’s heat and light at all times. This video […]

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There is a 1:1,000,000,000 scale (that’s one-billionth) model of our solar system along St Kilda beach in Melbourne, Australia. It’s probably the only way you’ll ever be able to tell your friends you hiked from Pluto to Mercury.

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Carolyn Porco discusses how samples gathered from icy geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus hint that an ocean under its surface could harbor life.

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A volcano moon, the biggest moon in the solar system, the oldest moon in the solar system, and a moon with the best chance of hosting life are Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, named after Galileo who discovered them in 1610. Jupiter has 79 moons that we know of so far. This is a long video […]

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The different densities of material that compose the earth’s surface create layers of like material.

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Here are a few things to bring with you to the red planet and some information on living there.

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The short answer is 4.54 billion years old. But how do we even know that? And what happened during all those billions of years before humans evolved?

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