Click on each space object to discover facts and other information about the many space objects that make up the solar system.

This comprehensive site delves into other aspects of our solar system besides the planets and the sun. Click on the topics on the right like solar winds, the heliosphere, the heliopause, asteroids, comets, and more.

This site has links to all the planets, providing an overview of the solar system. It also contains information about asteroids, meteors, comets and other features of our solar system.

A detailed overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in the solar system.

Test your knowledge about the solar system with games and activities designed to help explore what you know about the sun, the planets and their moons, space rocks, the Milky Way, and related topics.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn all about the components of the solar system with this downloadable lesson plan. Includes several student handouts and a research activity.

Material to begin an exploration of the Solar System: the characteristics of the planets, theories about planet formation, and more. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on star formation,...

Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of "space." You tell it how large to make the sun (in inches or millimeters) and the page will do all of the calculations for your scale model solar system and provide...

Understand how the solar system was formed by reading this web page. Also found on the page is a video that reenacts the beginning of our solar system.

Use water balloons to show the effect gravity will have on different sizes of objects in our solar system. Activity also shows how inertia works.

Travel to the outer edge of our solar system to the far reaches of the sun. Learn about this region called the heliopause and what information the Voyager probes send back to Earth.

Amazing Science looks at the Solar System with this FAQ site and lesson plan.

What makes up the Solar System? Kid astronomers learn about the planets and the sun.

Understand gravity using this study guide.

Explore the dozens of Saturn's moons orbiting the second largest planet of our solar system. Find out about the Cassini space mission which explored Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Explore the huge spherical region surrounding our solar system. Find out what the Oort Cloud contains and how comets originate there.

Learn the basic facts about the planet Venus. The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for younger researchers.

Learn about asteroids. What are they? What is their structure? Difference between asteroids and comets? The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for the younger researcher.

In this lesson plan site, middle schoolers are asked to construct a scale model of the planets to help visualize the relative size of planets and their relative distance from the Sun. Links are provided to the Sun and the planets which...

Learn all the basic facts about the planet Uranus. The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for younger researchers.

Learn the basic facts about the planet Saturn. The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for younger researchers.

Learn all the basic facts about the planet Jupiter. The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for younger researchers.

Learn all the basic facts about the planet Mercury. The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for younger researchers.

A list of famous people associated with Astronomy.