Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Mercury, Venus, and Mars sit within the same general neighborhood as Earth, yet each has followed a radically different path. One kept a magnetic field against the odds. Another trapped so much heat ...

ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes Water is found in the ocean, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Water exists as solid ice and in liquid form. ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems (3-5) ...

Humans love an origin story. And in space science, there is no greater question than why Earth is the vibrant, living planet we see today. As humans return to the heavens, understanding our planetary ...

The Solar System is filled with planets, moons, the Sun, asteroids, comets, and strange features that make every world unique. A full tour reveals how diverse and surprising our cosmic neighborhood ...

Where do we come from? How did our planet form? How do we know about the history of our solar system? You can explore these universal questions in the Moon, Meteorite and Solar System Gallery. Earth’s ...

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.

The solar system walking tour was developed with the help of a multidisciplinary team that included about 10 graduate researchers who helped write and edit the information on the signs. The display ...