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

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

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

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

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, ...

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

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

The European Space Agency released stunning snapshots showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our solar system ...

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

On April 8, 2024, tens of millions experienced a solar eclipse from Mexico through the United States and into Canada.

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... off particles of ice and dust within the plane of the solar system. Monday, January 13, 2025: Seeing Earth from space ...

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 ...