The age of the Solar System is an important question to answer in science. It connects the celestial question of how stars and planets come to be and the more Earthly one of how life arose on our ...

The show will feature characters from the classic book and TV series exploring the atmosphere on Mercury, Venus and Mars.

The dog days of summer have been nipping at our heels this August: the humidity has been oppressive, the vacations not quite long enough, and the prospect of going into autumn is both comforting and ...

Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our solar system, and found it is very slightly older than we thought – 1.1 million years older, in fact. That puts our solar system’s age at 4.5684 billion ...

As anticipation builds for next month’s total solar eclipse, Summerville native and author of the STEAM-powered children’s series “The Chronicles of Ms. Clarke’s Class,” Julie Packett, has announced ...

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

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.

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...