The Mars Express orbiter launched to the Red Planet. Twenty years later, ESA has delivered a high resolution color image of ...

— -- Mars has claimed many a spacecraft as victim, and the latest one, a Russian space probe, looks likely to tumble to Earth very soon. Russia's Phobos-Grunt ("grunt" is Russian for ground or ...

What is the behavior of modern space science when a visitor of another star system arrives measuring it during silence, or describing it in noisy terms? The longest lasting fascination in the case of ...

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft on board at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, ...

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...

This is great news for planetary defense. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The path of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system has ...

Despite reports that a failed Russian Mars probe fell to Earth Sunday (Jan. 15) and plunged into the Pacific Ocean, some confusion remains over where exactly the spacecraft crashed, according to ...

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

LONDON -- It turns out the Beagle has landed after all -- but it never called home. The spacecraft Beagle-2 went missing on Christmas Day 2003, when it was supposed to land on Mars and start ...

Something extraordinary happened last week that gave me some hope our species is still evolving and will one day realize our dreams in the stars, as the comet 3I/ATLAS was caught on camera by the ...