On May 2, as sunlight crept over the Martian horizon, the Odyssey spacecraft captured Arsia Mons, a towering, long-extinct volcano, puncturing a glowing band of greenish haze in the planet’s upper ...

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

Canadian scientists working on asteroid missions, exploring the universe through the James Webb Space Telescope or helping to ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

The company is developing a larger vehicle, named Helios, that could meaningfully improve the ability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

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 ...

During the month of June you will be able to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter in the sky at different times.

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Robert Zubrin quite literally wrote the book on why humanity should go to Mars—so why has the renowned aerospace engineer ...