On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected the first aurora at Mars that's visible to the human eye. That's good news for future ...

NASA 's Perseverance rover has captured an aurora in the night sky for the first time from the Martian ground.

She told me the weirdest thing on Mars is a ginormous volcano. “Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system,” Cooper said. “It dwarfs Earth’s volcanoes! Its massive size helps ...

15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could ... Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created ...

It contains the engines, solar panels, communication systems, and other support equipment needed to keep the mission on track while travelling from Earth to Mars. Attached to it is the Descent ...

Raymond Ward wants to see solar panels draped over every balcony in the United States and doesn’t understand why that isn’t happening. The technology couldn’t be easier to use—simply hang ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

When Tesla rolled a spandex-clad dancer on stage during AI Day in 2021, much of the tech press treated it like a punchline.

During the space race, putting boots on the moon was the biggest prize – but the other worlds in our solar system were calling, too. As the United States focused increasingly on Mars, the Soviet ...