Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

Caroline Delbert is a writer, avid reader, and contributing editor at Pop Mech. She's also an enthusiast of just about ...

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 ...

While the spring semester is winding down, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is amping up its offerings ...

Today, we know that M44 contains about 1,000 gravitationally bound stars, and that it’s about 577 light-years away from Earth ...

A celestial leap is set to take place over two nights as the moon and Jupiter will appear to dance near to each other in the ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

This is especially evident with the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter ... As Robert Burnham, Jr. writes in Volume One ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...