New images of the Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched planet in ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

Pictures from the International Space Station do not disappoint, from comets and northern lights to giant hurricanes and ...

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on. Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s ...

"For observational astrophysicists, one widely accepted picture of planet formation was likely ... star at around 20 times the distance between Earth and the sun, taking 119.2 Earth years to ...

Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven times the mass of Earth lurking behind Pluto. If ...