The kids are out of school for spring break. Here are the best events, parks, sports games, zoos, museums and places to take them in metro Phoenix.

Kitchen Pantry Scientist Liz Heinecke shares some science experiments for kids. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned about financial risks at the firm's annual investor day meeting, its biggest event with ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What is below Earth, since space is present in ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...

PAGASA is offering free planetarium shows and star-gazing sessions to the public this week as it celebrates the yearly National Astronomy Week (NAW). The 2026 NAW observance began on Sunday, February ...

Ready to send your child on an incredible journey through the Milky Way, discovering the wonders of our solar system and beyond? The Astro Adventures camp is dedicated to cultivating camper’s innate ...

"This is essentially as close as we can get to seeing the death of a massive star." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

Rocky planets are typically found near their star, while gas giants form farther out — not the other way around. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Our familiar, archetypal solar system has warm, rocky worlds like Mercury and Earth orbiting close to their star and gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn sprawled out in more distant orbits. Researchers ...

Using the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), an international team of astronomers have performed long-term photometric observations of a luminous blazar known as Ton 599. Results of the observations ...

This dark, moonless Friday the 13th evening is the perfect time to head out after dark and try to catch a glimpse of the zodiacal light. The ethereal, cone-shaped glow is actually the reflected light ...

When astronomers glimpsed the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in July 2022, they saw the kind of universe most of them have come to expect. There were dazzling blue bursts of ...