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

Step outside shortly after sunset on Monday, Jan. 13, and look low in the east-northeastern sky. There you’ll see the rising full moon, and just below it ...

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

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.

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

We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

On this date in 1999, the Mars Polar Lander approached the Martian surface to high of speed for NASA engineers to correct ...

This January, the night sky offers a stunning display featuring the Quadrantid meteor shower and a rare alignment of four bright planets visible in a single view. Witness Mars at opposition, shining ...

2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few ...