You may have seen colorful, eye-popping space images in books or on NASA websites. There are beautiful spiral galaxies that shine in pinks and blues; glowing green and yellow clouds with great white-tipped columns; or the radiant leftovers of exploded stars that may look like an eye or a ...

For 12-year-old Olivia Bean, the best half-hour of the day is when the game show "Jeopardy!" is on television.It's the only time when Olivia feels she's in control of her life. After all, her dad has moved away and is living in California with his new family. Her mom's boyfriend has moved in. ...

Mike Dutton remembers the first time he got real encouragement from an art teacher. He was in third grade, and he had made a tiger sculpture."It was Mr. Briggs," Dutton, now 35, said, recalling the event as if it were yesterday. "I made this tiger, and he liked it so much that he lent it to ...

Wherever he goes, 11-year-old Adam Webb looks for Civil War artifacts to collect. In his bedroom, he displays 150-year-old Civil War items, including buttons and bullets. He also has a collection of books about the war. He sketches pictures of Civil War heroes and uses Lincoln Logs to build ...

Have you ever heard of the Fountain of Youth? According to legend, anyone who drinks from the waters of the magical spring will be made young again.The story has been around for thousands of years. One version has explorer Ponce de Leon looking for it — and perhaps finding it — in Florida. ...

Aidan Meath's friends have a nickname for him: Dr. Seuss.It's a pretty good nickname, considering that, like Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss's real name), Aidan has written a book that carries an important message for kids.Of course, Geisel was in his 30s when he published his first children's ...