Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new exoplanet orbiting a bright late F-type star. The ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Auroras are beautiful phenomena on Earth, but they aren't specific to this planet. In fact, they appear on many other planets ...

Trappist-1 b, a fiery exoplanet, stuns researchers with possible CO2-rich conditions, volcanic activity, and haze-driven ...

Mars is well-known for its dust storms, which occur every Martian year during summer in the southern hemisphere.

NASA reveals Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, with frozen oceans and signs of ancient hydrothermal activity, ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

Mars is an attractive candidate for colonization for several reasons. It is relatively close to Earth, with journeys taking ...