Emporia State and the Peterson Planetarium will collaborate with Emporia Main Street on creating a permanent scale model of the solar system throughout campus and the downtown area, a project ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

British rock band The Beatles put out a song titled ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. The song’s letters, LSD, were said at ...

He said his team talks about the possibility of the media “crying wolf” when using scare as the main point in news ... we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt ...

As Johnny Cade, Ralph Macchio was the heart of The Outsiders — and the one who got to utter the film’s most famous line: ...

TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...

The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...