MAVEN is therefore pretty important to ongoing Mars operations, and working out why it dropped out of communication may help ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

Nov. 28 (UPI) -- SpaceX on Friday launched 140 payloads, the 19th mission of the Smallsat Rideshare program from California.

Track the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, catch the peak of the spectacular 120-per-hour Geminid meteor shower (Dec 13/14), and ...

Increased Launch Capacity: Both SpaceX and Blue Origin are pushing the boundaries of how much payload can be sent into orbit.

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA's Perseverance rover and coming from dust-storm fronts and whirling dust devils.

The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere. By Kenneth Chang It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists ...

A strange rock standing alone in the dusty expanse of Jezero Crater on Mars has captured the attention of planetary ...