What Kids Will Learn from "Space Mission": Imaginative play about space exploration helps kids learn more about planets, comets, and other phenomena beyond planet Earth. This is one of the cartoons ...

Meenakshi Wadhwa was recruited from Arizona State University, where she’s been serving as director of the School of Earth and ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

An ancient ice core from Mont Blanc has revealed 12,000 years of climate and human history, making it the oldest Alpine ice ...

Earth posters for Timothy Olyphant's Kirsh, Samuel Blenkin's Boy Kavalier, Adrian Edmondson's Atom Eins, and more.

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

Oceans are Earth’s defining feature, its largest ecosystem, and the engine that powers our planet.

Astronomical discovery: supersonic gales of 20,500 mph batter the exoplanet WASP-127b, breaking cosmic records for ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...