Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...
The contrast between two clusters of marsquakes has led two scientists to suspect the internal structure of the Red Planet is ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...
All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...
In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total six planets will be visible, ...
Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...
Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in ...
The six planets will be visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, ...