A spoiler free look at one of my all time favorite short stories, Ray Bradbury's "Usher II" pays homage many of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous tales including: “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit in the Pendulum,” “The Premature Burial,”...

Planets Set: 2. This clip offers a brief introduction to the inner and outer planets of our solar system.

The Mars rover Curiosity has been sending back a constant stream of information from Mars to Earth since it touched down on the red planet on August 6. Curiosity can communicate direct with Earth directly by using its high-gain antenna...

Mars rover Curiosity is set to use its drilling unit for the first time to sample the inside of Martian rocks. The drill is the only piece of equipment Curiosity has yet to employ since it landed on Mars in early August. The rover is...

Solar system components

We've just wrapped up a survey of all the planets and moons in the solar system. But is that all there is? Not even close! There are tons of objects that make up the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud, you can't even believe...

Planets Set: 1. This clip introduces the characteristics of the inner planets of Mercury, Mars, Venus and Earth.

We all know that the universe is big. But how big it is? Much bigger than you think. Let's start out by looking at the Earth, and then zoom out to progressively larger and larger structures, so that we can see just how big it is. Then...

NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration program first proposed in 2015 consists of three phases. <br/>

Mars has been all over the news and media lately. It certainly looks like humans will set foot upon its surface very soon! Just in case you're one of the lucky people who get to go, you'd better learn all about the planet first, don't...

A fact-filled look at 23 of the most important events from man's on-going adventure in space. The beginning of the International Space Station. Space Facts. Part 8

Scientists have revised an earlier theory about how the moon was formed via a single, slow collision between Earth and Mars-sized planet Theia, adding a second collision.

An update for the NASA InSight mission to Mars. What has it seen and discovered so far?

Once it was determined that the Earth is round, the next step was to decipher the geometry of the solar system. Does everything rotate around the Earth, like in the geocentric model of Ptolemy? We thought so for thousands of years, but...

NASA’s InSight mission marks the first time humans have managed to directly map the internal layering of a planet other than Earth.

Learn about the planets in our solar system with this video. This video teaches about each planet and gives planet facts with interesting information about all the planets. See pictures of the planets and learn fun things about these...

The video provides an overview of Mars, its history, and its characteristics. The video also highlights recent evidence suggesting that Mars may have once supported simpler forms of life. The Inner Planets part 9/11

This video provides a brief overview of the planets closest to Earth in our solar system, including Mercury, Venus, and Mars. It describes the unique characteristics of each planet and includes images and footage from spacecraft that...

The Elements of Poetry - Figurative language, meter and rhyme, simile, and metaphor . these are a few of the many topics explored in this lively video tour through the genre of poetry. Other elements illustrated in the program include:...

Students are taken on an exciting animated trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Images from NASA and the Hubble space Telescope illustrate the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter, Saturns' beautiful rings, the tilted rings of Uranus, and...

Let's watch the video to review all the vocabulary about the planets and the Solar System.

Planets in our Solar System: Planets for Children and kids

This video will is full of fun facts about the different planets in our solar system. It's a great video for students learning about astronomy in our solar system. Learn...

Learn about the planets in our solar system! This video proves some fun facts about each planet that children will love. Preschoolers and toddlers can enjoy pictures and video of the planets while learning about these...

Physics teacher and solar astronomer Simon Foster explores how we developed our understanding of the universe and uses our changing models of the solar system to explain how science works.



On location on top of a volcano in...