When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New images from NASA's Curiosity rover show a series of "boxwork" ridges, which looks like large ...

For the first time, a fleet of orbiters and a rover circling another world has captured detailed views of an interstellar visitor as it swept through the inner solar system. As comet 3I/ATLAS brushed ...

Close-up images of a region of Mars scientists had previously only seen from orbit have revealed “dramatic evidence” of where water once flowed on the Red Planet. The new images taken by NASA’s ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been tootling across the martian surface since 2012, its lofty quest to determine if Mars ever had environmental conditions suitable for microbial life. While it’s already ...

Red Planet Day reminds us how a single spacecraft, Mariner 4, transformed humanity's understanding of Mars and opened a new ...

The arrival of an interstellar comet is a truly momentous astronomical event, but witnessing one up close, from the orbit of another planet? That is the stuff of science fiction. Yet, this remarkable ...

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"That Mars is habitable by beings of some sort or other is as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be," wrote Percival Lowell in the early 20th century. While the theories of this ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding of the Red Planet. The spacecraft was designed and built by the Jet ...