"We just decided to turn the camera on and see how it looked." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, the ...

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey robotic spacecraft, which has been exploring Mars for over two decades, is set to complete an impressive milestone on June 30: 100,000 orbits around the Red Planet. Since its ...

Evidence of a catastrophic landslide on the bottom portion of the giant Martian volcano Olympus Mons. Credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO A spacecraft orbiting Mars has captured evidence ...

Pioneer Astronautics has conducted a successful dynamic test of its Mars solar balloon inflation system. The experiment, performed at an altitude of 116,000 ft over Kuner Colorado on September 26, was ...

New research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth’s orbit and shaping the cycles that drive long-term ...

After just a year working on Mars, the NASA rover Curiosity is changing the way we look at our solar system. Scientists say it may change how we look at ourselves, too. “This work changes the picture ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

Solar wind washes over the planets, but it briefly disappeared at Mars due to an event on the sun. Mars's atmosphere temporarily expanded by thousands of kilometers. NASA's MAVEN orbiter observed the ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

In 2021, a solar storm was recorded by multiple different spacecraft around our solar system. Their combined readings tell a curious story. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...