Astronomers have an excellent habit of naming large projects after deserving contributors to their field. From Nancy Grace Roman to…
Two spacecraft made historic flybys of Venus last week, and both sent back sci-fi-type views of the mysterious, cloud-shrouded planet.…
Telescopes have captured meteoroids hitting the Moon and several spacecraft imaged Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter in 1994. But…
Farewell! Even though the BepiColombo mission launched for Mercury in 2018, it's still hanging around the Earth - at least,…
While the scorching planet Mercury might not be the first place you’d think to look for ice, the MESSENGER mission…
Do you wonder how astronomers find all those exoplanets orbiting stars in distant solar systems? Mostly they use the transit…
Earth's magnetic poles drift over time. This is something that every airplane pilot or navigator knows. They have to account…
According to a new analysis of LRO and MESSENGER data, the ice deposits on the Moon and Mercury could be…
A handful of spacecraft have used ion engines to reach their destinations, but none have been as powerful as the…
A new study by a team of Swiss astronomers indicates that Mercury-like planets, which have a high iron-to-rock ration, are…