Mercury, typically classified as the Solar System’s innermost planet, is displaying features more commonly associated with comets. On 3, Steven Bellavia captured an image from Surry, Virginia, ...

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Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

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Scientists say that Mars may need its own time zone as they calculate that clocks on the red planet will tick 477 ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...