Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.

When people believe that we have found life on other planets when we have not, we've lost more than public trust — we've lost our own direction.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Detects a 10-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds on Mercury The innermost planet of our solar system, ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

The planet, recently renamed BD+05 4868 Ab, is losing its outer layer piece by piece, with a comet-like trail of dust left ...

NASA researchers suggest a surprising discovery on planet Mercury: a diamond layer approximately 10 miles thick, adding to ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

Mercury’s surface is scattered with graphite, a clear sign that its crust once floated atop a carbon-rich magma ocean. As the ...

Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, may be home to a dazzling secret hidden beneath its scorched ...

Planet Labs’ Pelican-2 satellite carries an Nvidia Jetson-2 computing platform to analyze images on the satellite rather than after their downlink to Earth. Credit: Planet Labs Planet Labs has ...