This series of videos introduce NASA's DART spacecraft which was set on a course to collide with an asteroid Dimorphos in October 2022, to create a crater and alter its velocity. 

The series starts with 'Presenting Hera' a video introducing Hera, the asteroid detective, and its adventure to travel to and...

These resources cover a variety of activities linked to the theme of the Moon.

Piecing together the latest research, data, theories and informed speculation, this book is as close as we can get to an eye-witness account of Mars. From the planet's formation 4.5 billion years ago, through meteor strikes, explosive volcanoes and a vast ocean to the long, frozen ages that saw its atmosphere...

There have been many theories about what struck the Earth in central Siberia in 1908 with the force of 3,000 atomic bombs causing millions of trees to topple over and many still standing trees to lose all their branches. However, despite many expeditions and the efforts of generations of Russian scientists,...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

In this sweeping tour of the cosmos and our place in it, we are shown the many ways in which we are connected to the vast universe we inhabit. Tracing the whole natural history of how events in the near and far universe have influenced life on Earth today, and how they might influence life in the future, this book...

Humankind is at a turning point in the quest for extraterrestrial life - we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. This book describes radical new ideas about planetary formation and reveals discoveries of bizarre inhabitants of various solar systems.

Weaving together stories about the people and places at the heart of his research, while explaining the problems that scientists are trying to solve, the author provides a unique portrait of the universe and our quest to understand it. This book depicts science as a human process and brings cosmology - with all its...

This book is about scientific error and wishful thinking and tells the story of how the world's greatest scientists searched for a planet, named Vulcan, that never existed. 

This workbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the exploration of our Universe and the technological advances in Earth-based telescopes and the application of automatic space vehicles facilitating this. It also explores the age-old question of whether there can be life elsewhere in the Universe and whether...

This book takes us on an extraordinary journey through the 99% of the cosmos we can't see, shining a light on entirely new galaxies, cosmic prehistory, black holes and supernovas. In a scientific detective story thousands of years in the telling, the mysteries of the Universe are revealed as we have never seen them...

While twentieth-century space exploration belonged to state-funded giants like NASA, now the most ambitious schemes belong to private companies and individuals such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. This book explores some of the biggest ideas emerging from the private space sector, assessing which stand a change of...

This book transports us back to Victorian England, into the very heart of the great nineteenth-century scientific controversy about the Sun's hidden influence over our planet. It explores Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the Sun and how his brilliant insight - that the Sun's...

The history of the telescope is far from short. Its invention in 1608 marked a turning point in progress: not just of science, but of astronomy and philosophy. This book introduces us to the extraordinary characters and events that have shaped the four hundred years of the telescope's existence and the future of...

A selection of resources where you can find out more about British Astronaut Tim Peake and his mission to space.