SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars. With the ...

Watch for one of the best meteor showers of the year, Mars at its brightest, a new "planet parade" in late January, plus a ...

Unusual vortices tied to Jupiter’s magnetic field may be driving massive formations of atmospheric haze close to the giant ...

The giant planet hasn’t been this bright in a decade, and it reaches opposition December 7. Now is the time to get out and ...

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Scientists have discovered Earth-sized dark UV spots at Jupiter's poles, likely caused by magnetically driven vortices ...

Open star clusters sparkle as Luna and Venus line up and Jupiter’s moons jockey for position in the sky this week.

In a world where the climate is increasingly hot and volatile, farmers are having trouble keeping their crops cool. A startup ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. New clues in Earth’s northernmost ...

Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Red Planet Day, observed annually on November 28, celebrates humanity’s enduring fascination with Mars, the "Red Planet." It ...

Red Planet Day celebrates significant scientific achievements and inspires ongoing research into Mars' geology.