Before dawn on the slopes of a giant Martian volcano, a thin white plume begins to form. Within about two and a half hours, ...

Space enthusiasts and astronomers have been tracking one of the Red Planet’s most fascinating atmospheric mysteries for years ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft lifted off aboard an H3 rocket before dawn from ...

ESA has completed the final major testing of Lunar Link, a communication system originally developed for NASA’s Gateway lunar ...

Scientists believe they may finally have an explanation for a bizarre cloud that appears and promptly disappears each day ...

JAXA's MMX probe will orbit Phobos, drop a rover and scoop at least 10 grams of the moon for Earth labs, the first sample ...

October 15, 2026 8:16 pm ET | Japan's space agency is getting ready to launch the MMX mission to study the moons of Mars, ...

Space scientists have said that Mars’s “oddest cloud” may be even odder than they thought. Researchers using the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, alongside a state-of-the-art ...

Phobos, it seems, is not long for this universe - at least on the large cosmic timescale. Astronomers have long known that ...

Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some exotic physics behind Mars' ...

Although Earth history has erased much of our planet’s early biological evidence, Mars preserves ancient environments that may hold clues to life’s emergence. Robotic explorations have confirmed that ...

Every morning during spring and summer in Mars’s southern hemisphere, a long white cloud appears downwind of the giant volcano Arsia Mons. The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, or AMEC, can stretch up to ...