On 15 July 1965, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft made Solar System history. As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to Earth ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New images from NASA's Curiosity rover show a series of "boxwork" ridges, which looks like large ...

Could Mars have just stolen Earth’s front-row seat to one of the rarest cosmic events in decades? In early October, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the MAVEN spacecraft, and the Perseverance ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding of the Red Planet. The spacecraft was designed and built by the Jet ...

(CNN) – NASA says the red planet will soon be closer to Earth than it’s been in 11 years. On May 30th, Mars will be about 47 million miles from our planet. It sounds like a long way away, but consider ...

We’re all excited about this extraordinary Mars opposition. That’s July 27, with Mars shining next to the Full Moon. And Mars comes closest to Earth on the 31st — the nearest martian visit since 2003.

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing unprecedented images of Mars' lesser-known moon, Deimos. Mars has two moons, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured the first close-up images of a part of Mars that scientists say provide evidence of how water once flowed on the red planet. There were once rivers, lakes and ...

The moon and Mars will share a close approach in the night sky tonight (Nov. 20), coming close enough together for a nice pairing for the naked eye or binoculars. As seen from the United States, the ...

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Mars has now risen to the rank of the fifth brightest object in the pre-midnight evening sky, rivaled only by the moon, Venus, Jupiter and the brightest of all stars, Sirius. When you purchase through ...