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 ...

Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

New research confirms Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic hellscape for almost the Solar System’s entire 4.57 billion-year history.

The massive solar outburst washed over Earth, the moon and Mars, bathing them in radiation. And, for the first time, instruments on all three bodies measured the same event almost simultaneously.

This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024.. On April 8, 2024, a broad swath of North ...

Astrum. Triton: The Solar System’s Strangest Moon Explained. Posted: March 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. Discovered in 1846, Triton is the largest moon of Neptune - but it’s unlike ...

Ganymede, which is the largest moon in the Solar System, is also one of its ‘ocean worlds’. Most of these are moons that have an icy crust on top of a subsurface ocean.

The new 'Moon King' NASA JPL's Solar System Dynamics team currently recognizes 268 "traditional" moons in the solar system — 1 for Earth, 2 for Mars, 95 for Jupiter, 124 for Saturn, 27 for ...

There’s a newfound ocean in the outer Solar System, and it’s in a very surprising place 1. Mimas, a mid-sized moon of Saturn, turns out to have an ocean beneath its icy surface — despite ...

The most volcanic body in the solar system, Jupiter’s moon Io offers some clues to how icy ocean worlds might maintain their liquid interiors. Photograph: Ted Stryk/NASA/SwRI/MSS.

The moon is probably even older than assumed and was carved out of the earth only 65 million years after the formation of the solar system. This is the conclusion reached by two scientists from ...