Snapchat Planets, also known as Snapchat’s Friend Solar System, may look playful at first, but many users feel confused the moment they see planets like Mercury or Neptune on a friend’s profile. The ...

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker Astronomers have discovered 27 new potential ...

When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is ...

"Make Pluto a planet again," NASA administrator Jared Issaacman said in a Senate hearing last Tuesday. And lo, the Internet did rejoice. Two decades on from its original declassification as a ...

A simple explanation of how gravity shapes planets into spherical forms over time, based on basic principles of physics and planetary formation. Woman thinks she’s been feeding stray cat for ...

The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is creating a new digital divide in K–12 education, an AI skills gap that threatens to leave some students behind. While some schools are ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has reiterated his support for Pluto to be reclassified as a planet. Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006 because it has not cleared its orbital path of ...

Many of us are old enough to have grown up with the idea of nine planets orbiting the Sun. In 2006, however, a controversial decision in the astronomy community resulted in the official list being cut ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has reiterated his support for Pluto to be reclassified as a planet. Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006 because it has not cleared its orbital path of ...

Scientists used some of the most advanced plasma simulations ever created to uncover how the universe builds enormous magnetic fields out of turbulence. The discovery could reshape our understanding ...