Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...
Emporia State and the Peterson Planetarium will collaborate with Emporia Main Street on creating a permanent scale model of the solar system throughout campus and the downtown area, a project ...
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...
Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...
TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...
The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...