The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

A supposed square structure spotted on Mars sparked speculation about alien archeological sites on the red planet. It's a fun ...

NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a ...

What makes NASA’s InSight different from past Mars missions? Instead of exploring the surface, this lander is studying the planet’s interior, searching for seismic activity (marsquakes) and measuring ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

The mayor and city councilors got a glimpse into how Shakopee residents feel about their quality of life and community when Assistant City Administrator Nate Burkett presented the biennial ...

There was generally good news in the results of a community survey of Shakopee residents discussed by the City Council Feb. 7: 81 percent of respondents think the quality of life in the city is ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

Mars is one of the most explored planets in our solar system. Over the years we have had robots roaming on the surface and NASA is working hard to land humans on the planet by the 2030s ...