This guide has videos, interactives and other resources to help students learn about the solar system, the history of exo-planetary discovery, and ideas about space colonization.
This 12-minute video explains how our solar system works, focusing on how astronomers have searched for other stars and planets. Astronomers think there may be many billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy.
Move through this timeline of historic achievements in the search for planets beyond our solar system. At this time, the timeline goes from from 1983 - 2015.
Learn more about NASA's Exoplanet Program, dedicated to the discovery and understanding of planetary systems around nearby stars. You can learn about new discoveries and how many exoplanets have already been discovered.
The James Webb Space Telescope plays a key role in discovering how planets form around other stars and learning about their atmospheres. Scroll down the page to read about exoplanets and their similarity to Earth.
This 18 minute video is the story of the pioneers in planet-hunting and how today's scientists are getting closer to answering the question: is there life elsewhere in the universe?
In this six minute video, Olivier Guyon examines the possibility of finding other life-bearing planets among the billions of stars and galaxies in the universe.