On Sunday (Jan. 12), the Red Planet will make its close approach of Earth at 8:32 a.m. EST (13:32 GMT). This event, known as ...

Living on Mars will be no easy feat. Building viable living quarters would require an inflatable habitat that can be covered ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the Red Planet never ...

Thanks to the parallax effect, the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth ... to look. The red planet is currently about 250 times more distant than the Moon. As of Tuesday, Mars is ...

And while Mars rocks do occasionally come to Earth as meteorites ... Now, Perseverance will be looking for rocks believed to have originated from deep inside Mars that, after the crater-forming ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

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Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

Four planets will be in the parade in January, while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.