NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a communications relay.

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

Mars gains EU approval for €31bn Kellanova merger, expanding its snacking empire and promising growth, innovation, and more ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Space agencies are now focusing on menstrual care for astronauts. Longer missions to the Moon and Mars require sustainable ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

The ESA's JUICE probe has for the first time photographed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in an active state, revealing a glowing ...

Mars has never looked more like a world in transition, with ice emerging as the quiet architect of its past and a crucial ...

Scientists in Boulder are using existing NASA spacecraft to track a rare interstellar comet called 31/ATLAS as it travels ...