The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...