Mars at sunset reveals dozens of razor-thin atmospheric layers in stunning detail, helping scientists map dust and ice ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light ...

An alien comet, a Martian volcano, a man’s fall from the sun and a groundbreaking telescope’s first images: Here are the most ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

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A rare interstellar comet — only the third ever confirmed to enter our solar system — was photographed last week, closely approaching Mars, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The images taken on ...

The spacecraft that has quietly rewritten our understanding of Mars just crossed a very visible milestone: the Mars ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured the first close-up images of a part of Mars that scientists say provide evidence of how water once flowed on the red planet. There were once rivers, lakes and ...

On 15 July 1965, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft made Solar System history. As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to Earth ...

The images were captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on Oct. 3, when the comet passed within about 18 million miles of Mars.

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...