After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury: “Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is.”
Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest known nursery on the planet
Why do we care so much that Pluto isn't a planet?
Sorry, Pluto’s still not a planet
All Those Nuclear Tests Decades Ago Have Revealed Something New About Our Planet's Core
Astronomers discover a giant, rocky 'mega-Earth' 23 times more massive than our planet
How the story of life and our planet unfolded — together
The Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin
Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, do not ‘green the planet’
A Massive Stream of Gas Tilted This Planet-Forming Disk
What happens to a moon when its planet is stolen?
Commercial satellite company Planet restricted imagery over the Middle East during the Iran conflict
Earth’s First Complex Organisms May Hold Clues to Life Beyond Our Planet
25 years on, 2001's 'Planet of the Apes' has become a bit of a guilty pleasure
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet. The discovery may help us defend the planet some day
A newly found world blurs the boundary between planet and moon
Researchers Used Two Telescopes to Discover a Planet Hidden In Plain Sight
For The First Time Ever, an Atmosphere Has Been Detected Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet
Oldest known Mars rock offers glimpse of planet’s watery youth