Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

Wednesday, Jan. 8 and 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app —Discover how scientists are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe— They are ...

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During the 2023-2024 school year, high school students across the country investigated the relationship between big data and its impacts on their local communities as part of the NOVA Science Studio ...

A team of astronomers from National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Osaka Kyoiku University, Nagoya University, and Kyoto Sangyo University observed Nova Delphini 2013, which occurred on ...

If the universe as we know it started with the Big Bang, will it also have an end? If the universe as we know it started with the Big Bang, will it also have an end? And if it’s going to end someday - ...

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...