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What do exoplanets look like? Although they vary, NASA asked children to draw what they believed exoplanets looked like. Then, the governmental agency put the images on a chip that will fly onboard ...

History, A+E Networks’ brand dedicated to world wars, historical dramas, reality television and ancient aliens, is now catering to children with Planet H. Dan Suratt, the executive vice president of ...

The ancient Greeks proved over 2,000 years ago that the Earth was round and figured out how big it was by using simple observations of the Sun. But how do people know this today? When you drop ...

For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings. The rings around Saturn were discovered by an astronomer called Galileo Galilei nearly 400 years ago. He ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined a dwarf planet in 2006 as a celestial body that orbits the Sun, is round in shape, but has not cleared its orbital neighborhood of objects of ...