Imagine never being able to dream of landing on Mars or traveling to Saturn. Not because it's impossible to get there, but ...
Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...
A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...
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Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...
Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...
Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...
Launching early in the year, three Americans and one Canadian will zip past the moon, do a U-turn behind it, then hustle ...
Look up for eclipses, comets, lunar landings and more in 2026.
The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...