If you're banking on Earth being around forever, Elon Musk has some grim news: we're living on borrowed time—and the sun has ...

A new study using high-resolution images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed striking surface patterns ...

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Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a ...

Ever since American astronauts landed on the Moon, there’s been an appetite to visit Mars. But a number of daunting ...

Elon Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring ...

That's pretty different from what we experience on Earth or what Mars may have had long ago. That said, a lot more study will be required to understand the weird history of water on Mars.

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

Astronomers have captured visible auroras dazzling the skies above Mars — and they're unlike anything we can see on Earth.

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

NASA's Curiosity Rover is about to endure another winter season on Mars, when the temperature regularly plummets to levels ...