Mars and Mercury cozy up, the Leonids sparkle, and Saturn's rings are…disappearing? Mars and Mercury get close for a ...

Look up this week to get a glimpse of Mars, it’s making a “close approach” of Earth right now. On October 13, the Earth is directly in the middle of the sun and Mars. Mars is traveling close to the ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

A stunning new image from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has just revealed a sight never seen before: a giant volcano peeking ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first evidence of electrical activity on Mars that a scientist described as "mini ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...