July's Buck Moon – the first full Moon of summer in the northern hemisphere – will rise on Thursday (July 10). It's one of ...

Impact Craters: Small meteoroids collide with Mars, revealing lighter sediment underneath and sculpting crater patterns that coincidentally resemble hearts. Erosion & Volcanism: Mesas and depressions, ...

On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

The M-MATISSE project, which stands for Mars Magnetosphere ATmosphere Ionosphere and Space-weather SciencE, began in 2021, ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...

Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcanoes, and its two neighboring volcanoes are often surrounded by water ice ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...