A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
When most people guess which planet in our solar system is the absolute hottest, they almost always point to Mercury. It makes total sense on paper—Mercury is closest planet to the Sun, so shouldn't it be baking the most?
Surprisingly though, that isn't how planetary...
Between Mars and Jupiter sits a doughnut-shaped region packed with leftover rubble from the solar system's earliest days. It's the asteroid belt, and despite...
Five thousand light-years away, a dying star is carving a lion's face out of glowing gas, and on August 10, NASA released the sharpest look at it yet. The James Webb Space Telescope just captured stunning new infrared images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the...
Weve all grown up staring at it, feeling its heat, and building our entire calendar around its rise and fall, but ask most people what sort of star is the sun, and you'll probably get a shrug. Its just "the Sun," the one constant...