The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe explores the sun's mysteries, revealing new insights into solar phenomena and the solar wind.

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

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever clear images of auroral activity on Neptune, the 8th planet from the Sun. For years, scientists had only speculated about the presence of ...

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

Tiny magnetic "flowers" engineered by physicist Anna Palau are redefining how we manipulate magnetic fields. These ...

A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance ...

A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields. The size of the effect can be controlled by varying the ...