Despite the name, a planetary alignment isn’t when the planets get in a row, it’s when a fair few gather on one side of the Sun. A planetary parade, meanwhile, describes them all being visible in the ...
Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a telescope to be seen.
Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.
Thousands of mysterious clay mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water on the Red Planet's barren northern plains, ...
The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will ...
Space book authors Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III offer a primer for the new Space Age with a look at how it all ...
Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...
Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB), a developer of reusable orbital rockets, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Aug. 25, 2021. Its stock opened at $11.58, but it ...
On Jan. 25, 2004, NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars and sent its first pictures of the planet to Earth; originally ...
The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.
Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...