We've tested (and played with) the best star projectors for kids across a range of models from ambient, mood-enhancing night lights to more realistic star projectors suitable for children.

Download a free planetarium app like Star Chart, which allows you ... One idea for an astronomy-themed project: Have kids take photos of the moon as it cycles through its monthly phases.

Our vast expanse of outer space provides endless star, moon, and planet gazing opportunities that truly define the term ...

The simplest amino acid, carbamic acid, could have formed alongside stars or planets within interstellar ices. The findings could be used to train deep space instruments like the James Webb Space ...

Before computers, ancient astronomers had to plot the stars and planets using nothing more than paper, ink and lots of calculations. It would often take them days to make one plot representing one ...

The planets, ranging between five and 10 times the mass of Jupiter, don't orbit a star themselves. Instead, they are all ...

NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS — Life might arise in the darkest of places: the moon of a planet wandering the galaxy without a star. “There might be many places in the universe where habitable ...

When the skies darken during the total solar eclipse on April 8, colors will change, and some stars and planets will be visible in the daytime. Here's what to look for, and where. When you ...

A few thousand years ago it was also our planet’s North Star, until Polaris took its place as Earth’s axis wobbled. (Vega is set to reclaim the North Star crown in 12,000 years). As such ...

According to research published in ACS Central Science, the simplest amino acid, carbamic acid, could have formed alongside stars or planets within interstellar ices. The findings could be used to ...

The other means of forming planets is top-down, which describes how, under gravity, they collapse directly from a cloud of gas and dust, just like a star does. The lack of free-floating planets in ...