[http://youtu.be/KsF_hdjWJjo] (YouTube link)The German science video producers Kurzgesagt made this lovely motion graphics video explaining our Solar System, newly translated into English. It is simple enough for schoolc...

[http://vimeo.com/69456265] (vimeo link)Artist and animator Andy Martin draws an alien every day. In January, he began to populate Planet One. By the end of every month, he has a planet full of strange creatures, accompa...

The science fiction magazine Fantastic Adventures...  ...ic Adventures shows us a glimpse of life on other planets from their 1939-1940 issues. While the alien desi...  ...each planet, like gravity and atmosphere. All the planets

Adam Kennedy was inspired by the rusty round spher...  ...o, because they displayed patterns that look like planets . So with Photoshop and other effects, he makes th...

A 6th grade teacher handed out this study guide to her students. Redditor Dixichick13 corresponded with the teacher and determined that it was not a true or false quiz or a "find the incorrect statements" quiz. The teach...

There are a lot of people who don't like cake pops for one reason or another, but even those people might still like these tasty planet pops that are actually frosted peanut butter balls on a stick. Of course, when they...

Last month, after publishing my interview with NASA's Steve Collins, I promised a second interview with another member of the JPL Curiosity Rover team. Today, we finally get that interview with Erisa Hines, a key member...

It's like looking into a telescope or a snowglobe....  ...made beautiful lollipops that look like all eight planets in our solar system.(Sorry, Pluto.)The backside o...

Data from NASA's Kepler space telescope shows...  ...ts that orbit closer to each other than any other planets yet discovered. The image is an artist's concepti...  ...lanet might look like from the other planet. Both planets are too close to their star to contain liquid wat...  ...about 20 times closer to each...

Maybe we should have kept Pluto! A star 127 light-...  ...dence of having a record (as far as we know) nine planets revolving around it. The star is designated as HD...  ...years of data crunching. See, we can't see these planets . Instead, astronomers detected the planets by m...