The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Some remote regions will experience a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. The best places to see it will be in ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Astronomers measure star brightness using the magnitude scale. All the really bright stars we see are magnitude 1 or brighter ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the ...

Solar-Powered Desalination System Requires No Extra Batteries Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations ...