Asteroids and comets from Alpha Centauri are lurking on the outer edges of our solar system. There is a record of two ...

Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

A rare isotope from the early solar system may be locked in Earth's core, revealing insights into planetary formation ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

The study of the universe is a subject that never ceases to amaze the scientific community. If being able to know what is beyond our atmosphere has been something that has always b ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or call the information line (804-752-3210) for dates and times.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could be visible, but not all can be seen by the naked eye.

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky ...