NASA's Pluto experts have revealed new high resolution close up images of the surface of Pluto -- and admit they are stunned by the planet.
After more than four years of orbiting Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will crash into the solar system's innermost planet in two weeks when it runs out of propellant.
The New Horizons probe flew past the dwarf planet at 5.19 pm (India Standard Time), capturing history's first close look at the distant world.
NASA has completed its MESSENGER mission with expected impact on Mercury's surface.
Using data collected by India's Chandrayan mission, NASA has detected magmatic water locked under the surface of the Moon.
Photographs from moments that shaped the world last week.
The mission's findings will help researchers improve their forecasts of space weather events, which have the potential to damage satellites and harm astronauts on orbit, disrupt radio communications and, at their most severe, overwhelm power grids, NASA said.
Ahead of this momentous event, learn why the spacecraft won't be stopping at the dwarf planet and much more.
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