Have you ever wondered why Japanese students excel in academics and problem-solving? It’s not just about studying harder—it’s ...

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The Altjira system sits in the middle of the Kuiper Belt, at around 3.7 billion miles (6.0 billion km) from the sun, or about 40 times the distance between Earth and the sun. A diagram showing the ...

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The world of animation is at your finger tips in this quick and easy STEAM optical illusion project making a phenakistoscope ...

This fun (and delicious) experiment teaches kids about the phases of the solar eclipse using Oreo cookies. For this you need a pack of Oreo cookies, a plastic knife or spoon and a plate.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

but it is an opportunity to take a break from worldly matters and witness our place in the solar system. During the eclipse, the moon will appear to take a bite out of the sun, but how much varies ...

They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...