After nearly a decade in orbit, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has, for the first time, directly observed the process that ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped stunning shots of a brief partial solar eclipse on the Red Planet, capturing images of the tiny Martian moon Phobos crossing the face of the sun.

Because Mars is orbiting over the far side of ... while low-energy X-rays and ultraviolet light were detected across the ball of gas's entire face. Scientists hope the new views will help them ...

The storms originated from a massive cluster of sunspots that happened to face ... Mars lost its magnetic field billions of years ago, which means the planet has no shield from incoming energized ...

The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity uses its navigation cameras to try and capture images ...

Just recently, for example, one of its many onboard cameras captured some remarkable footage of a solar eclipse as Phobos — one of Mars’ two ... moving across the face of the sun, its shadow ...

The tiny Mars moon Phobos looms large on the sun's face in dramatic eclipse footage ... Other Mars rovers, such as NASA's Curiosity, have observed solar eclipses. But the new shots from ...

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moon and Mars after a solar outburst. This raised important concerns. "Space radiation can create a real danger to our exploration throughout the Solar System," Colin Wilson, ExoMars TGO project ...

(SPACE.com) NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped stunning shots of a brief partial solar eclipse on the Red Planet, capturing images of the tiny Martian moon Phobos crossing the face of the sun.