This sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star ... the sky the further north you travel. At the north pole, Polaris is always directly above.

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

But the pinwheel-shaped spacecraft also swung by the south pole of the largest planet in the solar system. NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come ...