Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...
The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will open this fall for public viewing on Thursday evenings, 7:30-9:30 pm, weather permitting. You can follow activities on Instagram@keebleobservatory ...
The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch on September 23, 2025, to study ...
There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...
NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our ...
Could the chemical debris of a shattered world hold clues to life elsewhere in the universe? Astronomers studying the white ...
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an object ...
Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...
It's hard enough to imagine the size of the universe; try wrapping your head around some of the largest known things within it that we've observed so far.