Mary Gilmore, Staff Writer On Wednesday, Apr. 16, a team of astronomers found evidence of an unexpected atmospheric gas while ...

Magnetar flares produce gold, platinum, and other heavy elements in our galaxy, says new research on a strange cosmic flash ...

Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says. NASA/Earth Observatory A blast from the past will be hitting Earth next week, as a ...

"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and ...

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.

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 ...

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.