“I reread the book, but now I’m rereading it with my daughter, and it’s been fun ... Earth in a cozy, unassuming way,” Carlone says. “This was a bedtime story Tolkien wrote for his kids ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of ... and the skies , scientists have known that the Earth is a sphere. We've all seen beautiful images of the Earth from space, some photographed by ...

As temperatures rise, hurricanes whirl and wildfires burn, the conversation about climate change and our role in it is ...

Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the Earth is a sphere. We’ve all seen beautiful images of the Earth from ...

Families can come out to the Nature Museum to meet and get their photos taken with Daisy the nature cat. This holiday market features 125 vendors to shop from, kids crafts, a DJ and more. On-site gift ...

If your kids grew up singing “London Bridge is falling down” like mine did, then make sure to take them to see it in person. This was one of the fun things that we did ... as one of the happiest ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

This movement was driven by seismic tomography models, which use seismic waves to create a 3-dimensional picture of the Earth’s interior. The researchers discovered that ‘low-density anomalies’—the ...

An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth ...