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

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence ...

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered. One ...

January's full Wolf Moon will make Mars disappear, but it's only temporary. Watch for the red planet's vanishing act from the ...

From a total lunar eclipse to meteor showers to space probes, 2025 will be stellar for celestial viewing. Those and more will ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express orbiter captured stunning views of a winter wonderland on Mars, but this isn’t ...

With Musk's new relationship to the White House, scientists predict a new 'Kennedy moment' is on the horizon - and Britain, ...

Every year, we get to experience not only the wonders of the sky, but also missions to space that expand our knowledge of our ...

But in April, photos from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter revealed that the spiders had emerged in great numbers at a region near Mars' south ...

The first full moon of 2025 is called the Wolf Moon. It's also a supermoon, set to appear in night skies Jan. 13, and will pass in front of Mars during a phenomenon known as occultation. People across ...