Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

The earth (and humanity) would be very different without our smaller red neighbor. In A Nutshell Computer simulations show ...

A new design for a nuclear-powered rocket could be the key to making the solar system more accessible. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system, towering nearly three times higher than Mount Everest.

A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...