The solar system's tiniest planet may be hiding a big secret. Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have ...

which is the closest planet to the Sun, may be harbouring a layer of diamond beneath its crust that is kilometres thick. The theory formed thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which spent 11 ...

On any given night, it's likely that knowledgeable stargazers will be able to spot at least one bright planet shining in the night sky. Because they don't happen every year, such cosmic displays ...

A TERRIFYING alien planet that "rains glass" lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a "nightmare world" by Nasa, the giant exoplanet has staggeringly fast winds that reach up to 5,400mph.

Using data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have identified a potential 10-mile-thick diamond mantle beneath Mercury’s crust. This finding suggests the planet may harbour more ...

NASA has a radical new way to look for Earth-like planets that could potentially harbor life. But first it has to build a giant "sunshade" that's the size of a baseball diamond. Video courtesy of ...

"This will allow scientists to cleanly separate star and planetary signals, knowledge that will enhance observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and future missions searching for ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" that splits the Red Planet into two distinct halves. Recordings of ...