In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

Stare into the heart of our galaxy – the Milky Way, filled with billions of stars and mysterious deep-space wonders.

NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers were identical twin robots that helped rewrite our understanding of the early history of Mars. The rovers were targeted to land at sites on opposite sides of Mars ...

Mars is one of the only other places NASA know life may have existed in the solar system. The Red Planet is the fourth from the Sun and its reddish surface is covered in iron oxide dust.

One of the globe’s top designers of space robots says a new “Golden Age of Space Exploration” - spearheaded by the world’s twin ... the Mars Phoenix lander, the Mars Exploration Rovers ...

On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet. Its counterpart, the Spirit rover, arrived just ...