In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the approach of a “wandering planet” into our solar system. This ...

Astronomers have made a significant breakthrough in space exploration by discovering over 6,000 planets outside our solar ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

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 ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

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 ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

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 ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...