We know that there are eight planets in our Solar System, but did you know that astronomers have…
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered… is there another world out there like…
Before there were worlds, oceans, or even solid ground, there was something far less impressive: a cloud. A…
Have you ever gone hunting… for planets? It might sound strange, but astronomers are doing exactly that! For…
Many famous scientists have discovered fascinating things about space. Did you know that a huge number of them…
For over 60 years, hundreds of astronauts have been travelling to space, doing amazing things like walking on…
Three… two… one… lift-off! Rockets are very important as they are the only means we have of transporting…
Space junk is a major problem. Some of it is very large, such as burnt-out rocket stages, dead…
There are many old satellites and broken pieces of them, called space debris, orbiting Earth that can harm…
In 2021, a powerful Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, carrying the largest,…
The Solar System contains eight planets orbiting our local star, the Sun. But did you know that there…
There are several hundred comets that spend most of their lives among the planets of the inner Solar…
Space is huge. It is so immense that is very difficult to imagine the distances involved, even between…
Help Paxi land on different planets and celestial bodies.
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a professional astronomer, searching through spacecraft data in…
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory is the biggest space observatory ever built in Europe. Weighing 3.8 tonnes at launch,…
The first test satellite in Europe’s Galileo navigation system was launched in December 2005, followed by a second…
Like living things, stars grow old and die. But heavyweight stars don’t fade away quietly. Instead, they go…
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the most famous – and probably most successful – space observatory ever…
Ancient people were afraid of comets – they were said to bring bad luck or foretell disaster. We…
The Solar System is full of material left over from the formation of the planets. Small chunks of…
Nearly all stars belong to gigantic groups known as galaxies. The Sun is one of at least 100…
Like people, stars are born, they grow old and they die. Their birth places are huge, cold clouds…
The Universe is everything we can touch, feel, sense, measure or detect. It includes living things, planets, stars,…
Did you know that the Earth has been recycling water for over 4 billion years? Every living thing…
The Earth takes 365 days, 1 whole year, to complete one orbit around the Sun! Over this period…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and is remarkably different to our home planet, Earth.…
Hi! My name is Paxi. I’m an explorer from another planet. I’ve parked my spaceship in orbit and…
