A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, according to a new analysis of ...

Look low on the southwestern horizon at sunset on Nov. 12 for a chance to see swift Mercury close to the red light of Mars in ...

On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty ...

Eight possible cave openings found on the Martian surface look to have once had ancient streams flowing into them, suggesting ...

A 2025 satellite photo captures the stark contrast between the barren Poás volcano and the surrounding Costa Rican jungle.

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

Blue Origin scrubbed its launch of the New Glenn rocket into low-Earth orbit Sunday, with a pair of Mars-bound satellites on ...

“It’s a huge privilege to be leading a mission to Mars,” said Robert Lillis, the UC Berkeley planetary scientist leading the ...

New Glenn, the towering rocket built by Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin, is set to take off on its second mission ...

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...

Blue Origin is preparing a second launch of its New Glenn rocket, this time with twin Mars orbiters on board. The company ...

This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company and will include a key test of whether ...