The most powerful solar storm recorded at Mars in the current solar cycle has just given scientists a stark preview of what a ...

Time moves differently on Mars. NIST physicts recently calculated exactly how fast each second passes on Mars. And if humans want to explore the solar system, every microsecond counts.

More than a year since its first dive into the quirky space tourism promotional racket, NASA has produced another tranche of retro posters that look just brilliant. Inspired by science-fiction posters ...

Mars has many interesting features, but one of the most amazing is Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in our Solar System. This giant volcano is not only huge, but it also helps scientists learn more ...

WASHINGTON :NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in green in the first viewing of an aurora from any planetary ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system. From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of ...

What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...