If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

Cosmic forensic experts are reconstructing the magnetic field around an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it.

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

JWST captures HH 30’s dense disk with bright jets and dust grains Microscopic dust plays a key role in planetary formation in HH 30 High-speed jet activity and spiral structures observed in the disk ...