Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Several noteworthy astronomical events will unfold this week. Understanding these occurrences enriches our appreciation of the universe and can guide amateur astronomers in planning their observations ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Barry 'Butch' Wilmore, and Nick Hague will share insights from their extended ISS mission in ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...