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Astrophysicist Jackie Faherty was drawn to her career by questions most people have had: Why are we here? What is this Earth? “You open up your mind to everything that’s out there in the universe,” Faherty tells TIME for Kids.…
Andrea Carter was about 10 years old when she realized she wanted to spend her life cultivating food. While there weren't many farms near Bethesda, Maryland, where she grew up, her family traveled each summer to rural Vermont, where Carter…
Far from Earth, an asteroid called Bennu orbits the sun. In 2023, a NASA spacecraft brought samples of Bennu back to Earth. Two papers, both published in January, reveal that the samples contained the building blocks of life. These building…
The dwarf planet Pluto had a “birthday” this month. Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930. That was 95 years ago. An American astronomer first spotted the dwarf planet. His name was Clyde Tombaugh. He found Pluto with a telescope. …
Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants. That’s because of their icy cores. But each of these planets may be hiding a deep ocean. Burkhard Militzer is an astronomer. He has published new research on these planets. It ran in…
Mountain lions in Los Angeles, California, are becoming more nocturnal. The shift helps them keep away from people. This is according to a study published in Biological Conservation last month. Seth Riley is a wildlife ecologist. These mountain lions exist…
Standing in one of Hawaii’s caves, you might think it’s empty. It’s dark. It’s quiet. Not many plants or animals call this place home. But there’s a lot of life. Most of it you just might not notice. There might…
Research has shown that adults undervalue the impact of random acts of kindness. They assume that their actions won’t make too much of a difference. But small acts of kindness mean a lot. In 2023, researchers Margaret Echelbarger and Nick…
Teams from Boeing and NASA tend to the Starliner spacecraft on September 6. It landed, safely but without its crew, at White Sands Space Harbor, in New Mexico. …
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore left Earth on June 5. The two astronauts were expecting a short flight on NASA’s new Starliner spacecraft. They’d fly to the International Space Station, or ISS (see “Space Station”). Successfully docking there would certify…
