The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

Siccar Point, photographed by the Curiosity rover, is near Mars' Gale Crater. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill People from cultures across the world have been looking at Mars ...

Mars will be visible to stargazers Sunday night as it moves into opposition with Earth. All you have to do is walk outside and look up at the sky. Because Mars is directly opposite the sun, the red ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best inventions since 2000.

An intriguing interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS is, as of now, on the opposite side of the sun from Earth – making it impossible to observe from the ground. But spacecraft orbiting around our ...

Footage from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope that celebrates 35 years in space. Images of Mars, planetary nebula NGC 2899, Rosette Nebula and galaxy NGC 5335 to celebrate. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space ...

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