The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

NASA spacewoman Anne McClain watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rise into the sky as her plane left Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, Sept. 28. She said: "What’re the chances?! I looked out ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the innermost planet.

Look, we don’t want to anthropomorphize, but is it possible that a planet that has gone to such lengths to make life impossible might not be too friendly to it anywhere else?

It wasn’t until the ‘90s that our astronomical powers advanced enough to confirm the existence of worlds around other stars. Since that very first discovery, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been ...

Sandy Brondello’s players loved her to the bitter end. She was spotted in photos of the team’s final, celebratory dinner after flying back home from their Game 3 defeat in Phoenix. After news dropped ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse is only visible over the Atlantic ...

What can exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study posted to the arXiv preprint server and submitted to the American ...

An Oct. 6 full harvest moon will be the first of 3 supermoons that will appear in the night sky over the rest of 2025.

NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates who are set to train for missions to the Moon and potentially for Mars. Their selection represents an assessment of both their talent and ambition. Are ...

Professional astrologer Steph Koyfman reads your monthly horoscope—and spells out how it may shape your travels.

The candidates will complete two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignments to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars, according to a press release issued Monday by NASA.