Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system, holds an outsized secret that some researchers believe could reshape how ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 20Once the waxing Moon sets this evening, its ...

The upturned sickle-shape of the 18%-lit moon will appear 40 degrees above the horizon as the sun sets, with a string of bright "evening stars" representing Venus, Mercury and Saturn arrayed beneath, ...

If enacted, noncompliant insurers would be removed from the state’s home and auto insurance markets for five years.

The pockmarked earth on Johannesburg's eastern fringe, until last week a humble cattle kraal ringed with barbed wire, now ...

It’s taken a while, but people who proposed optimistic timelines for crewed missions to Mars and colonies on the Moon are ...

The US have found an awful lot of lithium under a super volcano, though whether they can make use of it is another matter.

Turns out evidence of alien life might well have been discovered much closer to home.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...

Of the eight known planets in the Solar System, Mercury is the smallest and closest to our star, the Sun. Mercury has been known since the time of ancient Babylon, in the 14th century BC. Its name ...