As the name suggests, Dead planets have no atmosphere and thus no flora or fauna. They'll all have rocky, impact-marked surfaces comparable to our own Moon ... and high gravity makes it difficult ...

I can sit on an Italian beach when I’m old. For now, I look for adventure. I’ve traveled to Easter Island, deep into the rainforests of South America, trekked to see the gorillas in Rwanda ...

Featuring works from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art spanning nearly two thousand years —from approximately 1300 BCE to 400 CE—Flora et Fauna examines how ancient Mediterranean ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Holy unanticipated occurrences! A flying squirrel puppet, a feisty 10-year-old named Flora, and a boy banished from England with temporary blindness join forces for a delightful theatrical ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

(NEXSTAR) – A treat awaits sky gazers in the month of March – the moon will take on a deep, reddish hue as it slips into the Earth’s shadow during a total lunar eclipse. The celestial ...