Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover created using data from ESA's Mars Express orbiter and the Mars Reconnaissance ...

Besides the aforementioned smiley faces on Mars, there’s also Mickey Mouse on Mercury and the iconic Tombaugh Regio, also known as the “heart” of Pluto. The “man in the moon,” however ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Astronomers may have found the perfect Mars base location, and it's right next to a huge deposit of frozen water.

The image, taken in October 2024 using the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter, shows a crumbling crater called Deuteronilus Cavus. It is ...

The Mars Perseverance rover landed safely Thursday after a harrowing descent to the Red Planet and is already transmitting pictures. "I’m safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere," NASA ...

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Modular summer tents are set up at the 14-mile-wide Haughton impact crater, one of the northernmost craters on the planet. But even NASA’s best-equipped teams avoid the island’s brutal winters ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

Before SpaceX’s Starship lost control and exploded over the Indian Ocean during its ninth test flight, the 400-foot-tall megarocket blasted off from Texas’s newest city.. Starbase, situated on ...