Public Night at the Oil Region Astronomy Learning Center, home of the Bedow Memorial Observatory, will be held Saturday at 8 p.m. Tim Spuck, director of Education and Public Engagement at ...

Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

Planetary science has been shaped by a remarkable legacy of exploration, from the Apollo program to pioneering missions such as Voyager, Cassini-Huygens, Hayabusa, or New Horizons. Today, a new wave ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

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