The highest mountain… is on Mars! Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain in our solar system, standing at roughly 13 miles high. It’s about two and a half times Mount Everest's height above sea level – ...

The discovery may help scientists understand when and where planets like super-Earths can form in our galaxy, and help astronomers focus their search for planets around stars that are more likely to ...

For astronauts venturing out into the Solar System, it's not just the cold vacuum of space that poses a major hazard. On ...

For the middle school students, Wednesday was a big day as they tested whether their solar power systems can light up a bulb.

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Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler (D-Philadelphia) stopped in Pittsburgh on her statewide tour to promote Solar for Schools, a new grant ...

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact ...

A gargantuan asteroid impact on Ganymede, the solar system’s largest moon, significantly altered the body’s axis, according to a new study in Scientific Reports. Ganymede is a Jovian moon that ...

There's a new opportunity to observe a bright NASA spacecraft sailing across the night sky. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or "ACS3," is a small satellite that's testing new technologies ...

Lieutenant Ponte says predators will use information from the chalkboard, like a kid's favorite book or teacher's name, as bait. "Most kids, they know about stranger danger, they know about that ...

CAMBRIDGE (WBZ) — It’s a tradition for many families on the first day of school – kids will write their name, school, favorite hobbies, and books on a chalkboard and snap a photo. But this ...

We have a whole lot of weird moons in the Solar System. We have hot moons and cold moons. There's a moon with liquid and many moons that are dusty. One planet has a walnut moon, and another has potato ...