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

When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely "fluidized" by buried ...

A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has ...

Space scientists have spotted a city-sized “butterfly” on Mars. A striking new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...

For more than 20 years, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet. One region, in particular, continues to fascinate the Mars Express team, ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

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Russia successfully launched 52 satellites into space aboard a Soyuz-2.1b rocket, the Russian space corporation Roscosmos announced Sunday. According to Roscosmos, the rocket launch, carrying two Aist ...