NASA's Psyche has set a new benchmark for space communications. In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 ...

Scientists detect a solid inner core on Mars for the first time, revealing a new chapter in planetary evolution.

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow ...

Scientists solve a 15-year Mars mystery, confirming ferric hydroxysulfate formed by volcanic and hydrothermal heating across ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

If it pans out, it may complicate Elon Musk’s dreams of founding a settlement on the fourth planet from the sun.

Our solar system’s third discovered interstellar visitor, comet 3I/Atlas, will dip into the glare of the Sun this week, leaving the detective work on this object to spacecraft far from Earth.

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

NASA recently announced that its Perseverance Mars rover discovered rock material containing potential biosignatures, with ...

Before we get to Mars, we're going to have to practice. And develop radical leaps in technology, but also practice. A Mars ...

"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...