In August of this year, new findings published in the journal Nature Communications shed light on ... field, Mars could not ward off the solar wind, which began stripping away its atmosphere ...

In March we get to watch as four planets group into two pairs. Three of the planets are in the sky and one is right under our feet. Mars reaches opposition on March 3rd, the day Earth passes it ...

and you'll see the red planet Mars just a couple of degrees from bright star Pollux in Gemini, with the other “twin” of Gemini, Castor, close by. At 34 and 51 light-years distant, these star ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...