Wildfire smoke has reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history, according to NASA. The U.S. space agency says the smoke is from hundreds of wildfires burning in Russia, specifically ...

Cassini data reveal how Saturn’s moon Enceladus leaks enough heat to keep its buried ocean warm and potentially habitable ...

OK, Pluto might not be a planet anymore (it's now a dwarf planet for those living under a rock for the last decade), but it's still stunning. On Thursday, NASA released a color photo captured by their ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled breathtaking images of Saturn’s North Pole, capturing the iconic hexagonal cloud patterns in unprecedented detail. These observations shed new light on ...

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Since entering ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole.The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's ...

New findings from NASA’s Cassini mission show that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both poles – indicating that it has the ...

Scientists have discovered that Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is warmer than they thought — and that its hidden ocean may have ...

“The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...