1. Question: What is the largest planet in our solar system? Answer: Jupiter 2. Question: What is the fastest animal on land? Answer: The cheetah 3. Question: What are the three layers of the Earth?

Among the science questions in the new Pew Research Center survey that were easiest for most to answer correctly: 86% identify the Earth’s inner layer, called the core, as its hottest part. 9 A nearly ...

What are some questions science can never answer? originally appeared on Quora - the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

A few weeks ago, Dear Science featured news that some of you found alarming: You are an ape. That column addressed some common misconceptions about how humans emerged in response to a question about ...

What do you mean you don’t know? Dardariel/Shutterstock If a child asked you how close an astronaut can get to the sun, the chances are you’d need a moment – or perhaps a search engine – to figure it ...

It’s a pretty safe bet that nobody is going to fill the solar system with soup, out to the orbit of Jupiter. For one thing, that would take a lot of soup—2 x 10 to the 39th power liters, which is also ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author Randall Munroe about his new book, "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions." So question for you. If you unleashed a ...