Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Though little is known about Deimos, another European spacecraft recently captured unprecedented views of the moon's far side ...

This also marks the first time a Martian aurora has been detected from the planet's surface ... by these worlds' giant moons, ...

A ghostly Martian moonrise, starlit skies, and a mission chasing life’s traces—Perseverance captures more than just images.

Scientists have known for two decades that Mars' skies have auroras, too, but these curtains of undulating light had only been detected in ultraviolet — light that is invisible to the naked eye ...

NASA's Perseverance rover recently took the first ever photos of the aurora borealis on Mars from the surface of the planet.

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1. The spacecraft was ...

with a geochemistry — like Mars' location — lying between that of Earth and of Io, one of Jupiter's moons. Sulphur and oxidizing waters have reacted with the basaltic surface, producing ...

A camera built at Arizona State University is on its way to check for signs of life above Jupiter, but it detoured to Mars ...

How much water did Mars have in its ancient past and when did it disappear? This is what a recent study published in ...

A thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way take readings on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons ... surface. The colder they are, the deeper the ocean is.” That’s where the ...