Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

If I were on Mars, how often would I see Earth transit the Sun? Steven RiserConyers, Georgia From Mars, Earth transits the Sun four times in a 284-year cycle. The transits occur in either May or ...

A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.

While Earth experienced dazzling auroras seen as far south as Mexico, Mars faced a very different and far more intense impact.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have carried out an unusual experiment aimed at a question that has fascinated ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is investigating strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars that may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet’s watery history. These “boxwork” formations likely formed when groundwater ...

A strange flicker from a star 11,000 light-years away reveals evidence of two planets crashing together in a rare cosmic ...

NASA's huge Space Launch System rocket has been repaired and is ready for rollout back to the launch pad next week.

If any organism could survive getting catapulted off the surface of Mars and drifting through interplanetary space, this would be the one. The question was whether it could handle the initial violence ...

The tool will let you track NASA's modern lunar program during its 10-day flight around the moon and back again.

Published in January by Random House Worlds, "Detour" is the new mystery sci-fi novel from veteran TV writer Jeff Rake ("Manifest") and bestselling author Rob Hart ("The Warehouse ...

NASA is aiming for an April 1 launch date for a mission that will send astronauts around the moon and back as part of its ambitious lunar landing program. Four astronauts will fly aboard NASA’s Orion ...