A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

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Insectopolis explores the often-unseen—and rapidly disappearing—world we share.

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Earth has a new neighbor that lives far, far away. Scientists from the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

Doing chores is a tradition in many families. Chores help kids learn responsibility, and sharing chores gives you help around the house. Not sure your kids will go for it? Take heart! There are ...

I can thank my proactive Girl Scout leaders back in 1980-something for prying my couch potato buns off the sofa to drag me through the woods, with the hopes that I would appreciate nature. Back then, ...

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

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Planets that circle distant stars are called exoplanets. While we have eight planets in our solar system, astronomers have discovered thousands of these far-flung worlds around other stars. Exoplanets ...