Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

In theory, you could build enormous observatories on the Moon and see further and more clearly than ever before. It's not ...

NASA also wants to learn how to live and work on the moon as a step in preparing for missions to Mars ... Earth can inform scientists about magnetic fields, and the hope is that scientists ...

Cameras onboard will capture X-ray images of Earth, studying how space weather interacts with the planet's magnetic field ... the spacecraft landed on a crater slope, damaging its landing gear ...

However, it does appear the lander touched down somewhere in the vicinity of the landing site because its crater-mapping algorithm ... seeing the Earth in the field of view. With that information ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — As humankind imagines living off-planet -- on the moon, Mars and beyond -- the question ... The moon's permanently shadowed craters are cold enough for ... Moon 'Swirls' Could ...

According to scientists, this happened because the planet’s magnetic field was gone ... At some point in Mars’ past, exposed liquid water must have flowed across the planet’s surface. In Gale Crater, ...