Objects close to us
- Comet Home Page
- An overview of comets, including information about the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.
- Galileo Solid State Imaging Team
- From NASA - a website about Galileo's imaging camera. Images, overviews, references and resources.
- NASA Polar, Wind, and Geotail Projects
- Studying the details of how energy flows from the Sun to the Earth, and the various processes that are involved.
- The Spaceguard Foundation Home Page
- The Spaceguard Foundation works to protect the Earth from the dangers of collision with comets and asteroids.
- Astrogeology Research Program
- The Astrogeology Research Program at the U.S. Geological Survey. Information about our solar system, various space missions, research projects, access images, maps, databases.
- Planetary Sciences Archive
- The Planetary Science at the National Space Science Data Center. A large archive of information about the planets. Fact sheets, photographs, online books, and other data are made available. An excellent resource.
- The Nine Planets
- An amazing tour of our solar system. Includes numerous photographs, the origins of the names of the planets, surface features, moons, and more. An excellent resource.
- Astromaterials Curation at NASA JSC
- From the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas - the home page for the collections of samples from the moon, meteorites from Antarctica, dust from the stratosphere, and more.
- Solar Physics from NASA MSFC
- An overview of the Sun, its structure, features, past, present, and future research projects.
- Welcome to the Planets
- A collection of various images of the planets from NASA's space programs.
- The NEO Page
- Near-Earth Objects and programs for the observation of Near-Earth Objects.
- California and Carnegie Planet Search
- Searching for planets outside our solar system
- Mars Exploration
- NASA's Mars Exploration Program's Home Page.
- The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
- Various data about extrasolar planets: research papers, catalogs, charts, research projects, reports.