Mercury is a small, rocky planet about which researchers know relatively little. Two missions, taking readings as they passed ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the giant exoplanet 29 Cygni b — work that could clarify ...

Scientists recreate a previously unseen cosmic reaction and reveal how rare elements are formed in stellar explosions ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...

Bruno Mars took his stadium tour to new heights when his 2026 Romantic Tour brought "Uptown Funk" and other hits to metro ...

Efforts to cool the planet may do more than lower temperatures, they could fundamentally reshape Earth’s climate systems.

After a successful flight around the moon, the astronauts are relying on a flawed heat shield to protect them as they ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond Jupiter, carrying water and other volatile ingredients with it. Estimates often ...