Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...

Venus: Venus dazzles in the eastern sky before sunrise, shining brightly for a couple of hours each morning. It’s joined by ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

These 6 planets will align in the night sky this month. How to see the ‘planetary parade' Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the naked eye in January and for part of February. Uranus ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/YouTube In January, an event known as a 'parade of planets' will make Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn bright and visible in the night sky. The alignment of the ...

A triple dose of celestial wonder is in the stars this week as Jupiter, Mars and the moon line up for a rare captivating display in the night sky. Called a triple conjunction, this astronomical ...

Mars and Jupiter joined together for a planetary conjunction on Aug. 14. Both planets appeared “just a third of a degree apart, which is less than the width of the full Moon,” according to NASA.

Mars and Jupiter were observed in a rare celestial conjunction, coming closer than ever this decade. The two planets appeared just a third of a degree ...