NASA has plans to send astronauts to Mars surprisingly soon, but their exact timeline is still rather vague for a number of ...

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...

SpaceX has quietly redrawn its near-term roadmap, slowing its push toward Mars so it can concentrate on getting astronauts to the Moon first. The shift does not abandon the company’s long-stated ...

NASA's Perseverance rover took this selfie in May 2025. The Navcam used to capture the apparent comet images is located just below the large white camera at the top of the mast. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...

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Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...