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 ...

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

Take an epic journey across the solar system to Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Each world tells a different story — from Venus’s fiery surface to Mars’s red deserts and Jupiter’s massive storms. This ...

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 ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring ...

The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

Chrysalis, a 36-mile rotating space habitat, plans to take 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri in approximately 400 years.

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

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...