We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?
Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from outer space—specifically via a collision with a Mars-sized planet billions of ...
Just like Earth, our cosmic neighbor Mars sometimes has auroras dance across its night sky. In March 2024, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover imaged visible-light auroras for the first time during a major ...
"The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them works." ...
Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies go beneath the surface: They explore the interior of the red planet using seismic data from NASA's InSight mission ...
MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...
When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But mitigating this is its far greater distance, plus the fact that Earth appears much ...
A new scientific theory on solar tide effects has dramatically improved the accuracy of calculating how much faster clocks ...