BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured the 1st mid-infrared portrait of Mercury.
Double moon mission! SpaceX to launch 2 private lunar landers in January
Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace are putting their moon landers on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which is scheduled to lift off in January.
The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought
The moon may have received a volcanic facelift, making it more than 100 million years older than rocks collected from its surface might suggest, a new study finds.
Watch the sun unleash ‘extremely rare’ solar storm in explosive eruption (video)
All three eruptions were not Earth-directed.
Human artifacts abandoned on Mars should be cataloged to track our migration beyond Earth
Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New research says we must track the cosmic migration to Mars.
‘Spectacular’ asteroid blazes over Siberia just hours after it was detected
A small asteroid lit up the skies over northern Siberia Wednesday (Dec. 4) after burning up in Earth's atmosphere in a "spectacular" (yet harmless) fireball.
Comets probably delivered Earth its water long ago, new study reveals
Scientists have gathered new evidence to suggest icy comets indeed brought water to Earth, long ago.
Satellites find likely cause of mysterious African elephant deaths of 2020
The staggering deaths of over 300 African elephants in early 2020 was most likely due to toxins in water proliferated to exceptional levels by climate extremes, according to a fresh analysis of decade's worth of satellite data.
Neptune and Uranus have a magnetic mystery — but the case may finally be cracked
We may know why Uranus and Neptune lack dipole magnetic fields, at last.
‘We didn’t know what it was at first.’ NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet
NASA scientists conducting surveys of arctic ice sheets in Greenland got an unprecedented view of an abandoned "city under the ice" built by the U.S. military during the Cold War.