The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Solarflare CIGS flexible solar panels, plus a battery, are integrated into a Tesla Cybertruck on display at CES in Las Vegas.

While most exocometary belts in the latest study are disks, some are narrow rings. Some even have multiple rings/disks that are eccentric, which provides evidence that yet undetectable planets are ...

These are the planets that will be visible with the naked eye. A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is one of the most breathtaking sights in our solar system. With stunning visuals ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

Despite the evacuation of its Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, no space mission data has been lost, NASA says. NATIONAL HARBOR ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...