The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...

Sitting in the middle of the Iranian plateau, the Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert, is the planet’s 24th largest desert.

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...

The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week.

January’s full moon, the “Wolf Moon,” rose alongside Mars at its brightest, occulting it for a short period as seen from ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

So I grabbed my camera, ran outside, and looked up just as Mars was supposed to emerge from the Moon's curved horizon. Seen ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them ...

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...