This is because these objects formed “billions of years ago when liquid water still existed on the Red Planet. Water carried dissolved minerals into rock cracks and later dried, leaving the hardened ...

Scientists identified an iron-rich mineral on the surface of Mars that suggests the planet’s surface may be more dynamic than ...

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece ...

Mars is usually a safe 225 million kilometers away from Earth, but what if the red planet went off course and headed straight ...

These can range from the interesting (such as the donut-shaped rock which may not be from the planet) to the silly (hello, ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission recently achieved a major milestone with a successful radar test that was carried out during a ...

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.

As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...

Lower launch costs have made a Mars mission feasible—but political infighting now threatens SpaceX’s critical role. In a YouGov/CBS survey conducted in June 2025, as many as 65% of Americans expressed ...