Erin Shea makes "Poppi’s Planet," a YouTube program for kids aged 3 to 8, featuring eastern Connecticut in many episodes.

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

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 ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

Congratulations to the green sea turtle, which is off the endangered species list as of 2025 thanks to a population rebound.

Eco anxiety is very real, so we share this year's most uplifting stories to prove there’s hope for our climate.

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a few hundred million years, but what if we made it happen much quicker. And ...