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A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other ...
The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...
While significant technological and logistical hurdles remain, pioneering organizations are already proving that data in ...
New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...
On Earth, the most dangerous ultraviolet radiation for living organisms - UV - is blocked by the ozone layer. However, on Mars, the thin atmosphere, almost devoid of ozone, allows ...
On Feb. 27, 1988, the first of my weekly columns on stargazing appeared in print. More than 1.5 million words later, I sit ...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...
The White House says NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is a waste of money, but experts say the mission could help it achieve ...
Mars may still be home to oceanic quantities of liquid water, according to a recent paper published by the National Science ...
An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...
By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...
Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the red ...