They may resemble kidney beans, but formations on the northern hemisphere of Mars are actually sand dunes covered in carbon ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made light of Starship's fiery end. "Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!" he said on ...

The mission featured two robotic lunar landers: one from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and another from the Japanese space ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the Red Planet’s two moons, to study how its orbit is changing over time.

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

Astronomy buffs, undeterred by cloudy skies and rain, managed to catch a glimpse of the planet Mars on the night of Jan 16, ...

Despite the cloudy skies and rain, some skygazers were able to catch a glimpse of Mars on Jan 16. Read more at ...

In a bittersweet turn of events for the space industry, both Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin faced significant challenges on January 16, 2025.

The first full moon in 2025 arrived on Jan. 13 at 6:22 p.m., CST. It is called the Wolf Moon, because wolves were wont to prowl and howl (“ululate,”) on cold January nights, searching for prey. If the ...