At first glance, you'd think that white stuff on the floor of Kertesz crater is ice, especially since that substance…
There’s an often told anecdote that astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus never spied Mercury. And while this tale is almost certainly apocryphal,…
It’s here! As 2013 draws to a close, we once again cast our thoughts to all things astronomical for the…
Two comets currently on their way toward the Sun have been captured on camera from the innermost planet. The MESSENGER…
Take a ride on the Mercury express and see what MESSENGER sees in these two new videos! Each made from…
2013 may well go down as “The Year of the Comet.” After over a decade punctuated by only sporadic bright…
One of the original “Mercury 7” astronauts, Scott Carpenter, has died. He was the sixth person to fly in space;…
Three to two. That's the ratio of the time it takes Mercury to go around the sun (88 days) in…
Here on Earth we're used to seeing volcanoes as towering mountains with steam-belching peaks or enormous fissures oozing lava. But…
You've all heard of the "face on Mars" and the "man in the Moon" -- well I guess this would…