NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured several images of the Insight lander on the Red Planet between 2018 and ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky. Stargazers in the U.S. will need a clear horizon to spot the planetary duo ...

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...

Elon Musk appears to have begun walking back his attacks on Donald Trump barely 12 hours after stunning the world with a ...

Perseverance's May 2025 selfie from Mars captures a dust devil and a borehole, emphasizing the rover's ongoing mission to ...

The Deuteronilus Cavus crater has been shaped by water, wind, ice and volcanic erosion over billions of years, showcasing ...

What did we really see when we looked at Mars for the first time with human-made eyes? In this powerful visual journey, we dive into the first real images ever captured of Mars, uncovering what they ...

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

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while ...

As science develops and our observational instruments improve, there’s a growing optimism within the exoplanet community that ...