Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...

Crater Lake National Park is famous for its deep blue waters and volcanic origins. Visitors can view Wizard Island, a cinder ...

Close-up images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that Mercury’s surface records impacts of almost unimaginable scale ...

The chief volcanologist Teresito Bacolcol said it is too early to tell if Mayon’s restiveness would lead to a major and ...

From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for.

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

Three supermoons will lighten up the night skies in 2026, the stunning result when a full moon inches closer to Earth than usual as it orbits in a not-quite-perfect circle. Appearing bigger and ...

Saturn is on display in the early-evening sky this month along with Uranus and Neptune, both within reach of binoculars.