Mercury is the underdog planet. It's the smallest guy in the neighborhood, and it lives in the roughest part of town—high temperature, strong solar wind. But little Mercury is tough. It's made ...

Can You Remember the Planets? (Facebook Connect) Visit NOVA on Facebook to share your ideas for remembering planetary names—with Pluto's change in status, the old tricks no longer cut it.

Can forests help cool the planet? Follow scientists working in spectacular forest landscapes in Costa Rica, Brazil, Australia, and beyond as they try to untangle complex networks of trees, fungi, and ...

This method allows them to calculate each planet’s volume ... View at any point during the game. Visit the NOVA Labs Collection on PBS LearningMedia to view the full lesson plan that ...

With all the sightings of strange objects in the sky, people have been wondering for decades what these things can be.

In our latest NOVA Lab, we’ve created a game that invites ... players use the transit method to identify stars that seem to have planets orbiting them. This method allows them to calculate ...

One of the world's most popular lecturers on astronomy, Tyson is a familiar face to NOVA audiences, having hosted the miniseries Origins (PBS, 2004) and having been a featured scientist in prior ...

NOVA is the most popular primetime science ... concepts that shape and define our lives, our planet, and our universe. The PBS series is also one of the most widely distributed science programs ...

His story, along with scientific and anecdotal opinions are the subjects of PBS’ “Nova" streaming on ... astrophysics and astronomy at UC San Diego, says, “When I was an undergrad, I was ...