Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest planet in the solar system, it’s also the closest to our Sun.

Water ice has already been observed in numerous locations within our solar system, including on Mercury, Mars, Saturn, our Moon, other planets’ moons, and the Kuiper Belt. Scientists say what Webb has ...

The search for water in outer space is nothing new for NASA, but the liquid state is. The presence of water heavily influences the formation of giant planets, being essential for their formation, and ...

Real HD photos and videos taken by the MESSENGER probe. We discuss the orbit, climate, geographical features, and general physical characteristics or Mercury, and a lot more.

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

Astronomers detected hundreds more new worlds beyond the solar system this year and worked to better understand what makes them tick. The number of confirmed exoplanets — planets that don't ...

Its proximity to its host star, 13 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun, means temperatures on HD 189733b can hit 930 degrees Celsius. "They are quite rare," Dr Fu said of hot Jupiters.

HD 189733b, for example, orbits about 13 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our sun. HD 189733b is the nearest hot Jupiter, and it has been one of the most-studied exoplanets since its ...

Scientists made an exciting -- and pungent -- announcement about a nearby exoplanet this week, finding that a planetary body with a likeness to Jupiter smells of rotten eggs. Analyzing data ...