On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

January's full Wolf Moon will come between us and Mars. You can see the disappearance and the return.

Mars, once a planet abundant with water, now lies as a barren, arid expanse. Its surface features reveal a history where ...

NASA's Curiosity rover unveils weather secrets on Mars, from high-altitude icy clouds to extensive dust storms, enriching ...

Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

It took a quarter of a century, but artist Mikael Genberg may finally see his dream realized: a red Swedish house, on the moon.

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

But what about Venus, one of Earth’s closest neighbors, or planets and moons even farther away? Scientists and space agencies ...

As the number killed rises to 24, the Pasadena fire chief, Chad Augustin, also warns that fires could "take off" again.

In 1863, a Russian paleontologist and mining engineer made his way through the Eocene strata of the Caucasus to the shores of ...