Almost everyone has seen photos of the Northern Lights, those rippling green curtains that draw travelers to Iceland, Norway, and Alaska every winter. Far...
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....
I remember looking through a telescope in my backyard as a kid. I felt amazed when I saw Jupiter's bright light. Back then, we thought we knew the solar system well. But space science keeps moving fast.
Now, scientists use new tech to explore space....
Light is one of those things we see every day without really thinking about how strange it is. You turn on a lamp and the room lights up almost instantly. You look at the Moon and you are actually seeing it as it was...
There are eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. That's the answer most people are after,...
Ask a kid to draw a picture of a planet and theres a solid chance they'll draw Saturn, rings and all, before any other world in the solar system. Its the single most recognizable feature belonging to any planet out there, but ask most...