The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

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The race to return to the Moon and push beyond has entered a new, more intense phase. While Elon Musk and NASA have been ...

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Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 23, honoring the members of the NASA family who lost their ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet ...

From windswept craters to frigid ice caps, explore Martian landscapes through the eyes of NASA’s orbiters, probes and rovers ...