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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Once there, Venera 8 beamed data from the planet's hellish surface for just over 50 minutes before being fried. Following its failed launch, Kosmos 482 broke into several pieces consisting of the ...

Today: Today is a great day to Get Intimate… Get Intimate with the Shrub-Steppe. This annual event organized by the Kittitas Environmental Education Network includes many outdoor educational ...

They lie about 250 astronomical units from a third brown dwarf, making the system even more complex. Adding a planet to this picture only deepens the mystery. The system belongs to the Argus ...

Brown’s discovery of Eris, an icy world in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, led to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet. He has been dubbed the “Pluto Killer.” In 2016, he expressed ...

The solar system consists of the Sun, our home star, and everything that is bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf ...

Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps in in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. But do other ...

Several of those objects, including the dwarf planet Sedna, follow orbits that cluster in one sector of space instead of being spread evenly around the Sun. Computer simulations in 2016 showed ...

While Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system, it was stripped of its planetary status back in 2006 and is now considered a dwarf-planet. With astronomers hot on the heels ...

far beyond the bounds of Neptune and the dwarf planet Pluto. The findings hint at an enormous astral body more massive than Neptune, located hundreds of times further from the sun than Earth.