Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...

As they harmonized, Gaga and Mars appeared emotional. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The performance followed a video detailing the destructive blazes and the structures ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected a sample from the planet that the space agency has described as "unlike anything we've ever seen before." It is the 26th sample from the rover and it ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock sample on Mars dating back over 4.1 billion years, potentially providing crucial insights into planetary formation and our solar system's origins.

In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total six planets will be visible, four of them to the naked eye - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.VIDEO ...

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The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s. ESA is already planning to send the much-delayed, life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Thousands of mounds in Mars' northern plains contain clay minerals, indicating past water presence. These mounds, remnants of ancient highlands, reveal a ...

Trump again promised to launch American astronauts to Mars. Seated nearby, Elon Musk, a political benefactor of Mr. Trump who founded SpaceX in the hope that it would one day be able to send ...