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

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

Raman spectroscopy uses scattered light to identify a substance's chemical ingredients and is one of the most widely used ...

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

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

New Moon brings excellent dark-sky conditions for observing galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters in the sky this week.

A recent video created from images captured by Curiosity shows clouds tinted red and green flowing though the sky over Mars. Captured using the rover's Mastcam instrument on January 17, 2025, the ...

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

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other interesting subsurface features.

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 ...

This also marks the first time a Martian aurora has been detected from the planet's surface ... by these worlds' giant moons, recent research has revealed. For planets closer to the sun — like Venus, ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...