The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

The full buck moon will reach its peak illumination on Thursday, July 10. It’s just one of this month’s celestial highlights.

On Monday evening (Jan. 13), the Full Wolf Moon passed in front of Mars in what's known as a lunar occultation, during which another celestial object appears to disappear behind the moon from our ...

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1.

Mars’s orbit is much more elliptical—with an aphelion, or furthest remove from the sun, of 155 million miles and a perihelion, or closest approach, of 128 million miles.

The Full Moon will cover Mars in an occultation this Monday, Jan. 13. This event won’t be visible in the U.S. again until 2035.

Also, Mars will also be at its closest possible point to Earth, making it appear bigger in the sky. When can I view the Mars occultation? Along with the full moon, the planet Mars will be visible ...

Mars next to the full moon on Jan. 13, 2025. | Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images ...