A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

New research suggests that Mercury's crust is shifting and twisting in unexpected ways thanks to the force of the Sun.