"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

Classified as a comet, 3I/Atlas was first spotted on Tuesday by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey in Hawaii. Subsequent analysis ...

We've searched the cosmos for the best space and astronomy books out there. “Watch the skies!” was a cautious warning announced at the end of the 1951 sci-fi classic, The Thing from Another ...

By reading the best astronomy books, ... The sun: Facts about the bright star at the center of the solar system. Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens.

The U of R archives include an astronomy and eclipse book for “Young Ladies” and a series of plates that would have been used in classrooms. They were like eclipse apps in the 1840’s.

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered?

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." These days, high-tech cameras and sensors enable modern astronomers to do everything from hunting for ...

The Astronomy Celebration combined reading and writing through science, art, music, and foreign languages. For months, students researched and wrote books about the planets in the solar system.

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...

A new study has looked into the possibility that our Solar System could capture and provide a home for a rogue planet as they hurtle through the galaxy, alone. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan ...