NASA InSight lander snapped this selfie when its solar panels were still clean from dust. NASA’s InSight lander was a very different mission from the space agency’s famous wheeled Mars rovers. It ...

Slices from the edge of Mars reveal a layered atmosphere of delicate complexity. A European spacecraft has captured a luminous mille-feuille of dust enveloping the red planet in unprecedented detail.

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered. One ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency's retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft's solar panels. In the new image taken ...

2024 has been a year in space that has seen successes, failures, a clutch of firsts, and some goodbyes – not to mention a long-distance probe rescue, spacesuits on the catwalk, and a couple of cosmic ...

Today’s weather report on Mars: Windy with a chance of catastrophic dust storms blotting out the sky. In a new study, planetary scientists at CU Boulder have begun to unravel the factors that kick off ...