Far smaller and closer to the Sun than it should be, Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might ...

Mercury is a cold and desolate planet that appears to have little surface, no sign of water, and little atmosphere that can be observed. Wikimedia Commons A European-Japanese space mission will reach ...

Close-up images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that Mercury’s surface records impacts of almost unimaginable scale ...

From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for.View on euronews ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UK scientists have found an atmosphere on a red hot planet 280 light years away, in the ...

The long-anticipated BepiColombo mission is entering its decisive phase. Launched in 2018, this joint endeavor between the ...

Envision, which began construction in 2025, will map the atmosphere and geology of Earth's closest neighbor, the fiery Venus.

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

Happy New Year, Starlights! Welcome to January 2026 — a brand-new chapter begins! As we step into the new year, the cosmos ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...