Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals. The presence of iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide nodules suggests processes ...

The Sun will envelop the comet and make it disappear in the coming days. It will reappear when the two celestial bodies, the Sun and the comet, become close in the sky for viewers. The comet at ...

A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered structure made of dust and ice particles. Described by scientists as ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 million kilometers (307 million miles). That's more than twice the ...

The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will be traveling a million miles through space, the spacecraft will remain ...

New Glenn's second flight will propel NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars to study how the solar wind interacts with the planet's magnetic environment.

Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA's retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what that means for the planet’s history ...

Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System ( CaSSIS) aboard the Trace Gas Orbiter, ESA scientists found that the dust and gas layers of Mars' ...

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our understanding of solar wind and space weather.

A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface, according to results presented at the Joint Meeting of the ...

The first mission of the program, Artemis I, lifted off on November 16, 2022. The uncrewed flight to test the equipment was, overall, a success. From the first thundering moments of liftoff to the ...