A rare interstellar comet — only the third ever confirmed to enter our solar system — was photographed last week, closely approaching Mars, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The images taken on ...

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an environment capable of supporting microbial life. Over the years, the rover ...

NASA’s fleet of Mars orbiters and rovers has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet, allowing scientists to study its surface with unprecedented precision. Equipped with cutting-edge ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been flying our the red planet for the last 20 years, beaming back images of its surface captured by its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mars, with its rust-hued surface, is known as the red planet for a reason. Along the way, Curiosity has made some extraordinary ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently on its long journey through the solar system, headed for Jupiter’s icy moon of Europa. There, it’s hoping to find whether Europa could ever have supported ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner ...

NASA has released a stunning image from Mars that appears to show blue dunes on the otherwise red planet. The photo is a false-colored image, released last week as part of the 20th anniversary of the ...