On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 ...

Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains. Next year, Saturn will transition and its tilt will shift, altering our ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

Our sister planet is thought to have once been a habitable world, but a new study could change that narrative and alter the ...

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may ...

We've thought that, before it became the toxic hellscape we know today, Venus could have once been habitable, with oceans of ...

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...

Krotite is a cosmic relic, one of the oldest minerals in the Solar System, formed under fiery conditions in the early ...

We're wasting too much of the clean energy we generate. Reservoirs and caverns can store excess solar and wind power.

NASA's NEOWISE reveals 15 years of cosmic discoveries, from asteroids to stunning infrared images, leaving a lasting legacy.

Astronomers heading the search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...

Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago. The first period of the history of the Earth was known as the Hadean Period which lasted ...