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

In a remarkable development, NASA has confirmed the detection of a mysterious object entering our solar system, classifying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...

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 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 ...

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

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

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...