This has been a most interesting year to follow Mars. If you've been monitoring the Red Planet since the start of 2025, you have no doubt noted the dramatic change in its brightness as well as the ...

A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

February might be our shortest month, but it’s far from bleak. The winter night sky will be beckoning us to look up all month long. In January, we were treated to a “Planet Parade” of four bright ...

This is it. What we've all been waiting for. Mars and Earth will pair up on the same side of the sun Sunday (May 22), putting the two planets closer to one another than anytime in the past 10 years.

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The Mars probe got about 10 times closer to 3I/ATLAS than telescopes on Earth, and it observed the comet from a new viewing ...

3I/ATLAS is named for its status as one of three interstellar objects ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood, as well as for the NASA-funded telescope that spotted it: ATLAS, short for Asteroid ...