A model of a solar system first and foremost with a small projector built in, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a great educational tool for kids.

From 2002 to 2004, Krug joined the all-student team that developed the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, a scientific instrument riding on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. The instrument, which has ...

Astronomy often focuses on objects that are vast distances from Earth – stars that are light-years away, galaxies that are ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...