The Eta Aquariids major Class I meteor shower can be seen just before dawn on May 4. In the Fluvanna area, the shower will produce about 10-30 meteors an hour. Unfortunately, the moon will be in its ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...

The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

Exoplanet super-Earths are more prevalent in the universe than earlier research predicated according to international ...

A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know ...

"The key planet-formation processes in protoplanetary disks remain an active matter of research. One promising mechanism to ...

And Venus is putting on a brilliant show as the Morning Star, rising around 4am in the east. To its lower right – and 200 ...

Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. But by the time we saw it, it was already racing away into deep space. Now, Project Lyra proposes a bold plan: chase it ...

Using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, the team discovered a “Dark Matter bridge” connecting Perseus to a subcluster ...

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

A new Starbase city would give SpaceX room to expand, but local advocates worry about what it will mean for the surrounding ...