We got a big update about NASA's moon strategy in late March, just a week before Artemis 2 lifted off. In that news drop, the ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.

Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars ...

Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found some of the oldest rocks ever studied on Mars at an outcrop named "Arethusa." ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this panorama of an area nicknamed "Arbot" on April 5, ...

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NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not just that it fired, but that it did so at power levels no previous electric ...

There be dragons on Mars. In some recent snaps taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, dozens of polygon-shaped rocks have appeared, and they look remarkably similar to fossilized reptile scales or, more ...

NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie at a site on Mars where it drilled a sample to search for organic molecules in October 2020. Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / MSSS Scientists know those ...

Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge for protocols intended to keep the red planet pristine. By Emily ...

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had shed its skin across the planet’s surface.