A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

The Winter Circle (or Winter Hexagon) isn’t a constellation. It is an asterism, made of bright stars in the winter evening ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Americans will have to stay up late or get up really early this week to see the latest celestial event – a total lunar eclipse. The Sun, Earth, and Blood Moon will align on Thursday night and Friday ...

We’ve mapped nearly all of Mars’ surface from orbit, yet we know less about Earth’s ocean floor — almost 75% remains unmapped in high resolution. This terrestrial blind spot is driving NJIT ...

Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon appears to turn ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Hanna Sizemore was the guest speaker at the ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

A team of Chinese and foreign scientists has discovered underground sedimentary layers on Mars that appear to have been shaped by oceanic activity, providing new evidence that water once existed at ...