NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a magnetic filament erupting on the Sun. The filament was "connected to sunspot AR3229" triggered a long duration M3-class flare and resulting coronal mass ...

Among a "field of galaxies;" the James Webb Space Telescope captured spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648, a billion light-years from ...

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This is a particularly fun month for viewing Mars. The red planet reaches opposition — when it's opposite from the sun, with Earth in the middle — by the evening of Jan. 16. It's the closest ...

13. The Moon will be the most visible around midnight Monday night when it's directly overhead, according to EarthSky. The Wolf Moon will also pass in front of the planet Mars, giving viewers of the ...

On Monday night, we will see the highlight of the month, as the full wolf moon occults (covers) Mars. In this 2022 astropic, the full moon and Mars had a close encounter. This will be similar to ...

"The briefing will include NASA's efforts to complete its goals of returning scientifically selected samples from Mars to Earth while lowering cost, risk and mission complexity," NASA officials ...

Something strange is happening in Earth’s magnetic field, and it has caught NASA’s attention. A massive region of lower magnetic intensity, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), has appeared ...

NASA to unveil new Mars Sample Return mission strategies Perseverance rover’s Mars samples key to Mars exploration Timeline pushed back to 2040 due to rising costs ...

New oxygen pathway could reshape life detection methods CO2 and helium ions form molecular oxygen, study shows Oxygen can exist without biological processes on other planets ...

Mars as seen through a telescope in 2020. (Andrew Symes) The atmosphere of Mars is thin and made up mostly of carbon dioxide (about 95 percent.) There are traces of nitrogen, argon, and oxygen too.

Americans will walk on the moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth." In short, NASA is likely to adopt a two-lane strategy of reaching for both the moon and Mars.