The critical population of Chesapeake Bay oysters is on the mend, after numbers decreased due to over harvesting, habitat ...

Every weekend into October Cape May Point State Park hosts a “Kids and Critters” animal show for visitors, aiming to educate ...

That trend is perfectly illustrated by the DWARF 3 smart telescope from DwarfLab. Not long after I reviewed their DWARF II model in Astronomy’s August 2024 issue, the company announced its next ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a ...

Pluto, the largest of those dwarf planets, has a diameter of about 2,377km. The mass of 2017 OF201 is estimated to be about 20,000 times smaller than Earth's and 50 times smaller than Pluto's. "We ...

By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has been reporting on dwarf planets and their definitions since Pluto was demoted into that category. A sizable world has been found in a part of the solar system ...

Now, a US-based trio hunting this elusive world has instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system’s outer reaches and the existence of this new kid on the block could ...

Zoo Knoxville's head-start program brings in bog turtle eggs, hatches them, helps them grow and then returns them to the wild. North America's tiniest turtle is at risk, with a dwindling ...