Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...

Though full terraforming may take centuries, if not millennia, the long-term goal would be a Mars with stable liquid water, breathable oxygen and a thriving ecosystem. In the short term, this might ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to send a cargo ship to Mars by the end of next year. Here’s why that plan likely won’t pan out.

See the Red Planet slip behind the moon and re-emerge in this time-lapse. Credit: Griffith Observatory | edited by Space.com's edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Into the Forest I Go by David Celeste / co ...

The conjunction between Mars and the bright blue star Regulus began on Monday (June 16) and will bring the two objects side ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ... .</ ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured new images of multiple "dust devils" (twisters) on Mars. The snaps have been taken by ...

An artist's impression of the planet named TOI-6894 b (top right) orbiting a red dwarf star (centre). Astronomers discovered TOI-6894b, a giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star, TOI-6894 ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

On June 25, the sun in Cancer will form a productive sextile to Mars in Virgo, creating a perfect synergy for revelatory ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...