New planets are now being discovered outside our solar system on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of our own solar system. Far from a simple story of stable orbits, the creation of our solar system is a tale of hellfire, chaos and planetary pinball. It's a miracle our Earth is here at all.

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of h...

Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the...
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view...

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Astrophysicist Jean Surdej brings a small group of teenage pupils on a trip to the Lofoten islands i...

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For two and a half years we followed the scientific team of the NASA Lucy Mission a mission that wil...

The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exp...

A brief visualisation of NASA’s historic spacecrafts Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, and Dawn, exploring ...

What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the...

From the territories of the Arctic to the farthest reaches of the universe, Worlds of Ice shows us t...

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion La...

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In Astronomy Part 2, you will learn all about the planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, the layers...