An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

NASA is working on an exciting mission to send humans to Mars in the next few decades. To make this happen, the agency is ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month. Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets.

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan ... Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels.