Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

Scientific progress depends upon costly programs of research and systems of education that compensate for humans’ problematic ...

Emporia State and the Peterson Planetarium will collaborate with Emporia Main Street on creating a permanent scale model of the solar system throughout campus and the downtown area, a project ...

As it attempts to strengthen its industrial capacity against China, the United States must reassess the fundamentals of its ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...