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A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...

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The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

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Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

A breakthrough in auroral research, powered by artificial intelligence, has allowed scientists to classify over 700 million auroral images ... identified in our solar system, but their true ...