Editor’s Note: NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on February 18 just before 4 p.m. eastern time. Read more about the mission here. After a seven-month, nearly 300-million ...

One option involves using the sky crane system, which was successfully employed to land the Perseverance rover on Mars. This method would lower a lander to the Martian surface using rocket-powered ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

opens new avenues for studying the interaction between the Sun and Mars' atmosphere. Unlike Earth's auroras, the Martian aurora uniformly lights up the entire sky. Auroras, like the Northern and ...

Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point of light is easy to find in the western sky during May evenings ...

Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes, and its two neighboring volcanoes are often surrounded by water ice ...

NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a photo of the sky in the hours just before dawn ... Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively little ...

The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky tonight. As the sun sets this evening (Feb. 9), the moon will be shining brightly in the east, 93% illuminated in its waxing ...

Authorities in Kenya have arrested a senior police officer responsible for the cell where a blogger died, leading to ...

NASA’s Odyssey snapped Arsia Mons jutting above dawn clouds—revealing new insights into Mars’ upper atmosphere and volcanic ...

The perspective is what astronauts would see out their window if there was an International Space Station flying around the ...

Just to the upper left of Mars in the sky as it sets is an asterism called the Sickle of Leo. So named for its similarity in shape to the farm implement, the Sickle also looks like a backwards ...