NASA's Curiosity Rover has been roaming the Red Planet since 2012, taking thousands of pictures, drilling small holes in the planet's surface and searching for evidence of past habitable environments ...

NASA's Europa Clipper, en route to Jupiter’s moon Europa, captured infrared images of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby to ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

Astronomers have captured visible auroras dazzling the skies above Mars — and they're unlike anything we can see on Earth.

Mars experienced an aurora in March 2024, turning the sky green, as a solar storm produced the first visible light Martian ...

By commanding Perseverance to look up at just the right time, an explosion of green speckles was recorded on the rover’s cameras.

What steps can be taken to enhance in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for future astronauts on Mars? This is what a recent ...

After years of exploration, the Opportunity rover faces its toughest challenge yet - surviving a planet-wide dust storm. Its solar panels choked with sediment, NASA waits, hoping the wind will clear a ...

Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...

HOUSTON—The proposed deep cut in NASA’s top-line budget for 2026 could mean the agency’s hands-on human spacecraft operations are on a trajectory to draw to a close within five years, veteran ...

Precipitation, to be clear, includes any variant – not just water, but snow or freezing rain and other forms of water falling from the sky. Much like the Eastern Seaboard in winter, a "warm" Mars ...

"It took three unsuccessful attempts before we got it right, but when we did, it appeared exactly as we had imagined it; as a ...