A cross July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA ...

Mars has long been a symbol of humanity’s curiosity and ambition. Once the backdrop for science fiction tales, it’s now the focus of real-world plans for exploration, colonization, and survival. But ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

NASA spotted something moving in one of the moons of Jupiter. Some natural satellites have similar structures to the Earth, and this one is very intriguing.

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is known about the planet closest to the sun.

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

In the wee hours of July 18th, Mercury, our planet of communication and exchange, lip service and slander, poetry and sexting ...

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. This moment ...

From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...

As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...