ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...
Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator.PersonalBirth ...
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
Look about an hour before sunrise on Feb. 1 and find Venus, bright but very low, in the southeast, with much dimmer Mercury to its lower left. Far to Venus’s upper right shines Saturn, and ...
Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...
The 320-foot heavy-lift launch vehicle, which launched without a crew on Jan. 16 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...
February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...
Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.
While we’ve enjoyed a six-planet alignment since mid-January, Mercury joins the celestial lineup on Feb ... This arc is known ...
New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...
Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.