We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're extremely hard to see. In the space shared by the orbit of Venus, hundreds ...

On Sept. 30, 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft purposely crashed into a comet. Rosetta launched in 2004 and spent 10 years chasing down Comet 67P, a rubber-duck-shaped space rock ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, even though the system is young enough that it should still have a ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

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 ...

Abstract: The space environment is becoming increasingly crowded, raising the likelihood of collisions between satellites. Accurate prediction of satellite orbits is crucial for space transportation ...

A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able to see another one! Today we know of more than a million asteroids in the ...

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

The early solar system is still a bit of a mystery to scientists, but the secret to learning Jupiter's origins might be hidden in these tiny objects.

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