Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

Nyx is the is the Ancient Greek goddess of the night.  Unlike her sister, Eos, the goddess of the Dawn, Nyx is a mysterious figure.

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

WEATHER AT YOUR SCHOOL WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD TODAY! OUR MARISSA VIGEVANI HEAD OVER TO ST ALBANS TOWN EDUCATIONAL CENTER TO ...

A stronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...

Quaoar is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune. It has a ring and a small moon called Weywot. Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region of our solar ...

Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists have improved our understanding ...