Saturn will put on a show for professional and backyard astromers alike, and be the brightest and closest it has been to ...

Fresh analysis of Perseverance rover data reveals Jezero Crater experienced repeated episodes of water activity, ...

Unlike Earth’s orange-red sunsets, Mars shows a blue sunset. This happens due to fine dust particles in the Martian ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

A new NASA-backed study suggests alien civilisations could eavesdrop on Earth's space transmissions, offering a new approach ...

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama (below) of the Martian landscape comprises 44 images taken by the rover’s ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, September 19The Moon passes 0.8° north of Venus and 1.3° north ...

Scientists detect a solid inner core on Mars for the first time, revealing a new chapter in planetary evolution.

NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.

Seismic studies reveal Mars may have a solid inner core. The result deepens knowledge of its evolution and lost magnetic field. Researchers have determined that Mars shares a structural similarity ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...