Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s 32% and Mars ’ 25%. It’s unlikely that the core actually formed like this.

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 ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the surface of Venus.

Halfway between the glitz of Las Vegas and the glamour of Los Angeles sits a retail mirage that actually delivers on its promise—the Outlets at Barstow, where your credit card can take a vacation ...

Уличная прогулка в 4K по магазинам и современной архитектуре района Тайкули в Чэнду — популярному месту для шопинга и отдыха Is China’s ‘going global’ strategy at risk after US widens its trade ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the satellite could be chillier than the side constantly facing Earth, according to an analysis.

Sudanese preservationists who returned to the city after two years of civil war sifted through the rubble and remains of ancient antiquities, with hopes to restore and recover their cultural treasures ...

A top New Orleans police official is welcoming the idea of working with federal troops deployed to Louisiana’s largest city. But New Orleans Police Department Assistant Superintendent Hans Ganthier pu ...

A local prosecutor in South Carolina plans to seek the death penalty against a man whose federal death sentence for killing two bank employees was commuted to life in prison ...