On November 1, 1962, the Soviet Union launched the Mars 1 spacecraft on a mission to fly by the Red Planet. While it did end up flying by Mars, the mission was not exactly a success. After it ...

The Tianwen-1 orbiter has successfully photographed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, providing one of the closest-ever observational snapshots of the fleeting visitor. Operating from approximately ...

For the first time in more than five years, humanity has launched a mission to Mars — but it won't be arriving at the Red ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found a peculiar rock on Mars. Its composition suggests it may have originated from beyond our ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty ...

To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

Created in 2000 by Bezos, Amazon's founder, Blue Origin already holds a NASA contract for the third moon landing by ...

NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to ...