While none of the spacecraft have cameras perfectly designed to spot comets zipping by at speeds up to about 153,000 miles per hour (246,000 kilometers per hour), astronomers didn’t want to miss what ...

The object is the third interstellar visitor to our solar system ever confirmed. It will reach its closest point to Earth ...

A Brown University researcher helps to lead the science team for NASA’s HiRISE camera, which caught images of the comet as it streaked past Mars.

Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object — from the closest location any of the agency’s ...

When the dust storm on Mars finally cleared, Opportunity captured a landscape that looked nothing like the one it had seen ...

Abstract: The high-resolution images of the Martian surface, collected by cameras onboard rovers, offer unique insights unavailable from satellite images and are crucial for rover navigation and ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have uncovered evidence that water once flowed beneath Martian sand dunes — suggesting that the Red Planet may have once had conditions capable of supporting life. Scienti ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

The European Space Agency has released the closest-ever spacecraft images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, marking a major ...

The path of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system has been predicted with an accuracy 10 times greater than previous ...

Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...