A Billion Pixel View of the Surface of Mars

NASA's Google+ page is a great place to find neat imagery, videos, and articles about all things space. One of the things that I found ...

Three Ways Students Can Explore Space From Their Desktops

Someone recently emailed me after reading this post about Google Sky for Android to ask if there were similar tools available for use on la...

Connect and Collaborate With NASA

It's not a secret that I enjoy many of the educational resources that NASA offers to teachers and students. I enjoy visiting the NASA we...

50 Years of Solar System Exploration & 10 Good Resources for Learning About Space

National Geographic and Bill Nye the Science Guy hosted a panel discussion with NASA scientists. The panel discussed the history of major de...

View NASA Spacecraft in 3D

Spacecraft 3D is a free iPad app produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Spacecraft 3D uses augmented reality technology to bring...

Moon Phases and The Inner Solar System

Earlier this week Danny Nicholson posted a neat video of the 2013 moon phases animated . That video uses the same graphics that were used i...

Videos - Neil Armstrong and the Moon

The first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, passed away today at age 82. Every major news outlet has stories about Neil Armstrong. I ...

View Mars Panoramas and More

Last week I posted a short history of Mars exploration . This evening I explored a couple of more resources about Mars. On 360 Cities you c...

We Choose the Moon and Other Apollo 11 Resources

Today is the 43rd anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepping onto the moon. Here are some resources for teaching and learning ab...

Interactive Visualization of the Scale of the Universe

I just received an email from a reader, Mary Murphy, who shared with me a fantastic interactive visualization of the scale of the universe. ...

Planet Quest - An Interactive Timeline of Space Exploration

NASA has an excellent interactive timeline tracing the history of astronomy and space exploration from the Greek philosophers through tod...

Final Shuttle Launch - Videos, Images, and More

This morning the space shuttle Atlantis was launched on its final mission. In case you missed the live webcast of the launch this morning, t...

We Choose the Moon - 50 Years Later

Fifty years ago today President Kennedy announced to Congress that the United States would put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960...

Navigate the Moon on Your iPad or iPhone

NASA's Lunar Electric Rover Simulator is a free iOS app that lets you explore the moon. The app is really a game in which players perfo...

Pose Questions for Space Shuttle Endeavour Crew

The NASA space shuttle Endeavour launched on its final mission yesterday. On Thursday, May 19 PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O'Brien w...

NASA 360 - NASA from Space to Everyday Life

NASA 360 is a twenty-two episode series of videos about NASA. The episodes examine NASA's technological and scientific work. The episod...

Stellarium - A Planetarium on Your Desktop

Last week Tekzilla Daily had a segment about Stellarium . I was certain that I had written about Stellarium in the past, but when I checked...

Send Your Face (Or Students' Faces) Into Space

A couple of years ago NASA offered the opportunity for students to send their names to the moon on a robotic lunar explorer. Now NASA is of...

Video - Space Shuttle from Hangar to Launch

The Air & Space Magazine website has a neat time-lapse video documenting the process of preparing NASA's Discovery space shuttle f...