Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, Mercury endures some of the most ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during December 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

LOS ANGELES — A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry was sentenced to 2½ years in prison on ...

Gorgeous images of stellar nurseries are featured this week alongside some of the solar system's moons: Mars's Deimos, ...

Scientists have found a huge 900-meter-wide asteroid crater in Guangdong Province, China, three times more massive than the previously largest called Holocene crater. Despite the area’s severe ...

Easter Island's statues were made by different groups of people, according to new research. The iconic monuments arose from numerous teams from different clans working independently of each other, ...

Get your coat, grab a warm drink, and step outside. The December night sky brings a spectacular lineup of planets, meteors ...

It is good to be back and there is plenty to explore in the December night sky. Starting on Tuesday is the comet C/2025 T1 Atlas, which makes its closest approach to the sun. There is a supermoon on ...

Sierra Vista’s position makes it perfect for discovering southern Arizona’s wonders and natural beauty spots. You can explore Tombstone, Bisbee, or Kartchner Caverns without organizing a major safari ...

It feels like every company used to produce several concept cars each year that fueled the imagination of burgeoning car enthusiasts everywhere. Every auto show you went to was littered with ...

Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

NASA's moon orbiter has found another lunar dent. The headline says it all: The list of our moon's craters just got a little longer. On Nov. 13, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team — ...