NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Detects a 10-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds on Mercury The innermost planet of our solar system, ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

As the warming temps of late spring give way to the stifling heat of summer, it’s more important than ever to keep your pets ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

NASA researchers suggest a surprising discovery on planet Mercury: a diamond layer approximately 10 miles thick, adding to ...

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

It is so close to its star that it is covered in magma and is boiling off into space, say researchers from the Massachusetts ...

NASA, NOAA: Sun Reaches Maximum Phase in 11-Year Solar Cycle Oct. 15, 2024 — Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...