NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards ...

A new study suggests that if extraterrestrial life exists, it’s likely being lived on this exoplanet. Astronomers have ...

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1—the first successful Mars lander in history—touched down on the red planet. NASA’s Viking Program ...

Elon Musk’s orbiting Tesla Roadster was recently mistaken for a new asteroid. While it may crash into Earth in millions of years, it poses zero real threat. The conversation reignited in early 2025, ...

Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland ...

The Perseverance rover of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered geological evidence of a ...

Perseverance’s latest Mars images may contain the kind of clue scientists have searched for across decades of exploration.

Terraforming Mars has crossed from science fiction to a structured scientific research agenda, according to a peer-reviewed ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 touched down on the Red Planet, and became the first robotic spacecraft to successfully carry out ...

The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the asteroid it’s named after.

Science has discovered around 6,000 planets, and this is the first one, other than Earth, that is rocky and has an atmosphere.