Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or ...

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

The solar system is projecting with gold but scientists can't quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

Between 2014 and 2016, the spacecraft circled comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, collecting valuable information on comets’ role in the solar system ... have been the kids on the seashore ...

Marcia Lowry, founder and executive director of A Better Childhood, told Newsweek that her organization became privy to Tennessee foster system complaints last year. "These are kids in a variety ...

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced ... flare — the number provides more information about the event's strength ...

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 CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Are planets in the solar system that are ...