The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

A total eclipse of the Moon is the highlight of this month, visible across North and South America. Venus remains very bright ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Phoenix Mercury’s Natasha Cloud dribbles during the first half of a WNBA basketball game against the ...

“At first, I thought it was just a pimple, but by the end of the day, it had grown and formed a crater,” Tom said. The next morning, that same small pimple had developed into a large scab and ...

However, you'll have to wait until Friday, February 28 for Mercury to appear just above the horizon, and complete the line-up. Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Mercury will ...

One of Grace's hops is expected to be into a small crater about a quarter-mile from the landing site, which would mark the first time that an area where the sun has never shone has been explored ...