A layer of diamonds was found beneath Mercury's surface. This could help scientists understand the planet's unusual magnetic ...

The Moon has long been considered a geologically dead world, its surface frozen in time for billions of years. However, a new ...

Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly ... following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague holds a patch for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) at the end of a T-handle tool during a training exercise on May 16, 2024, in the NBL (Neutral ...

Excitement is building for next month’s launch of NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which will survey the sky in optical and near-infrared light from low-Earth orbit. NASA has just released a video ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

But last week's launch marked a crucial step to pave the way for NASA to send astronauts back ... its first lunar program since the Apollo missions came to an end in 1972. The previous landing ...

CORRECTION: The Resilience lander and Tenacious rover in the Hakuto Mission 2 were incorrectly identified as being part of a NASA CLPS mission. It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts ...

Europe's BepiColombo mission ... Mercury's magnetic field, surface features, and internal structure. Editor's Note: The original headline of this story has been updated to clarify that this isn't ...

The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already gearing up for its first big announcement, this one about the agency's ambitious, yet beleaguered, Mars sample return mission. Today (Jan. 7 ...