These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study exoplanets and the opportunity to refresh one’s perspectives.

The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

If you're tired of lugging your massive telescope to dark sky sites to observe the night sky, these small telescopes are much ...

Hello, Eos! Recently discovered molecular cloud is believed to be one of the largest structures in the sky and among the ...

YSU professor contributes to groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope research published in “Nature.” YSU Communications A ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have detected a promising sign of a ninth planet lurking at the the farthest reaches of the Solar System.

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 ...