NASA has found signs of a lake on Mars, with evidence suggesting the presence of water rather than just ice. Be warned: ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...

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A layer of diamonds was found beneath Mercury's surface. This could help scientists understand the planet's unusual magnetic ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on ... only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. BepiColombo 3 Captured ...

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later ...