The south polar region of Mars When it was shared: Jan. 29, 2025 Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Traveling through the farthest passing of Earth and Mars would involve a trip directly through the sun, while spacecraft must of necessity move in orbit around the solar system's star. Although ...

Derived from the Greek words peri (around) and helios (sun), the word reflects its meaning ... "In about 1604, Johannes Kepler fitted an ellipse model of Mars' orbit to observations of Mars ...

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night ...

This story was updated to correct inaccurate position of Mars and Earth. Mars will appear its biggest and brightest this month when it reaches its closest position to Earth while simultaneously ...

Continuing the Artemis program and using its planned lunar space station as a staging post would be a more energy efficient ...

Additionally, Mars recently passed perigee on Jan. 12, its closest point to Earth in its orbit around the sun, which makes it slightly larger in the sky. The result? A stunning lunar occultation of ...

If you've ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the sun ... sometimes pointing more toward the sun and sometimes more away from it. So, Earth's orbit only has a relatively tiny deviation ...