Deimos, at a much safer distance, is likely to escape this carnage; its fate, however, is not clear. Observations such as ...

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 ...

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

Catch Jupiter low early in the month, then enjoy Mercury and Mars in the evenings. Saturn, Neptune, and Venus shine in the ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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