Online conversations about children often suggest that adults shouldn’t have to endure them if they don’t want to. Scholars ...

Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

Meteors can be pieces of asteroids (which are rocky objects that orbit the Sun) or comets (which are icy bodies with long tails). As comets pass near the Sun, they can leave behind trails of dust and ...

If teenagers have chaperones watching over them every waking moment until they become legal adults, how will they learn to ...

Poking her head outside a snow cave she had just dug in the Pyrenees mountains, Katherine Bennell-Pegg is looking at the ...

Ganymede has giant grooves and ridges across its surface, sort of like the cracks you see in an old pavement. Scientists think these were made by shifting ice or water pushing up from beneath. Like ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries, and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

We all assume that school teaches us the truth … but as time passes, some truths are debunked. Here are a few things that ...

Just ask aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut Nicole Stott. She’s spent 104 days in space on the Space Station and ...

The two specific broods emerging this year have not come out at the same time since 1803, and kids may be hearing a lot of news about these loud insects. So today we're tackling the cicada ...

Of course parents are the medical decision-makers for their kids, especially when it comes to gender-affirming care.” Landon Hughes, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of ...