Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

Across the Milky Way and beyond, planetary systems appear to fall into a few recurring blueprints, and recent exoplanet ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, the third such visitor ever observed, is exhibiting unusual energy and chemical behavior as it ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has triggered a global scientific alert after emitting mysterious radio signals, prompting NASA ...

Slashing utility profits and upping clean energy deployment are core components of Democrats' strategy to reduce energy costs ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

New research shows potatoes evolved from tomatoes through ancient plant mixing that created underground tubers.