Space.com kids' site overall ratings This site is crammed with pictures, movies, information, news and games. In fact, this site has so much stuff, it can be overwhelming. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   NASA's Mars exploration site funzone overall ratings Build your own model of the Pathfinder spacecraft and find out what makes Mars an 'extreme' planet, how scientists search for water on Mars, and what scientists think about life on Mars. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   Amazing Space overall ratings This is a brilliant site featuring lots of interactive games. You can explore a black hole, build the Milky Way, collect Solar System trading cards, and learn about the Hubble Space Telescope. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   StarChild: the Goddard Space Flight Center's site for young astronomers overall ratings Did you know that the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt is as big as the US state of Texas? On this site you can learn all about the Solar System, watch a movie about comets, or play 'Moonlight madness' and 'Planet hop'. There are two versions of this site: if level 1 leaves you aching for more info, click on level 2. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   The nine planets for kids: a tour of the Solar System overall ratings Find out about all the planets and their moons, how much you would weigh on Saturn, and how to see asteroids from your own backyard. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   The nine planets: a multi-media tour of the Solar System overall ratings If the kids' site doesn't give you enough information, go to this one. It has loads of information on every planet and almost every moon in the Solar System. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Noc   Space place: the Jet Propulsion Lab's site for kids overall ratings This site is packed full of online games as well as activities to do at home or at school, away from the computer: make Saturn out of an old CD or bake some edible asteroids and moon cookies. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   NASA kids at the Marshall Space Flight Center overall ratings There's lots of fun science here. You can learn about the different ways spacecraft image the planets, find out about a career in space science and get science news updates online or sign up for them to be emailed to you. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   Kids' astronomy overall ratings This site has daily news updates, sky charts and moon phases (not just our own, but Jupiter's moons as well), and a discussion board. There are great puzzles and games - for a really fun time, check out 'Mutate an astronomer'. The site also includes a low-graphics version in case your internet connection is not very fast. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   Earth and sky for kids overall ratings Listen and read along to online radio shows about everything from stars to Mars. The site also includes FAQs, ask-an-expert and games. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   Astrokids (Astronomy Magazine's kids' site) overall ratings The kids' site for Astronomy Magazine has easy-to-understand information on each of the nine planets. Don't panic when you see the opening screen - you'll just have to make a guess at where to click. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn - kids' page overall ratings What's so great about Saturn, anyway? Go here to find out, and to find out what the Cassini spacecraft plans to do when it gets there in 2004. You can also download a paper model of Cassini, and find out who the original Cassini was. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   Astronomy for kids overall ratings Find out what causes an eclipse, what a meteor shower is, and where to look in the sky to see Jupiter. You can also do challenging word-search puzzles (they don't actually tell you which word to look for, but they give you good clues) and send virtual postcards. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   Mr Eclipse overall ratings If you want to see some beautiful photographs of lunar and solar eclipses, or to find out where and when to see the next eclipse, this is the place to go. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   Astronomy picture of the day overall ratings You might need help understanding the captions, but these images are truly stunning. Take a look into the archive to learn all about the different kinds of pictures astronomers use to study outer space Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   The Hubble Space Telescope overall ratings The site contains everything you could possibly want to know about the Hubble Space Telescope: how it was built, how it works, what it has shown us about the Universe. There are also hundreds of images. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   Astronomy Now magazine overall ratings Astronomy Now magazine has great articles on the latest in astronomy. The articles are written for adults, but are worth looking through if you are really interested. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   Views of the Solar System overall ratings This jam-packed site may be a bit difficult to read, but it is easy to use and contains loads of information and images. Check out the globes of the planets ('planetary icosahedrons'), which you can download, print out, and put together yourself. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   NASA planetary photojournal overall ratings Search here for any of 2710 images of the planets and other bodies in the Solar System, complete with captions full of useful and interesting information. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   Ask an astronomer overall ratings If you have any questions about astronomy, search here for answers. If you can't find what you are after, send in your question, and an astronomer will get back to you with an answer. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at Home overall ratings This is the page to visit if you want to help scientists search for other intelligent life in the Universe. Download the program to get your computer to analyse data while you're not using it. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   Lunar and Planetary Institute overall ratings Explore the Moon or Mars, take a 3-D tour of the Solar System, and read everything the Apollo astronauts said to each other during their Moon walks. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? Yes   Beagle2 (mission to Mars) overall ratings What do these three things have in common: the rock group Blur, a Beagle, and the artist Damion Hurst? They're all going to Mars (well, sort of). Go to this page to find out all about the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) overall ratings This is the main NASA site. This site will lead you to all other NASA sites: current missions, history, and lots of pictures. Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No   ESA (European Space Agency) overall ratings We always hear about NASA, but what's going on at ESA - the European Space Agency? Easy to use? Friendly language Lots of info? Good pics? Any goodies? No