So I grabbed my camera, ran outside, and looked up just as Mars was supposed to emerge from the Moon's curved horizon. Seen ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

Arrival in early-to-mid December 2028 would place the spacecraft at Mars during northern hemisphere spring, providing ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

Learn about Mars at opposition in January 2025, when the Red Planet is closest to Earth. Discover how to view it, key dates, ...

The family-geared activities at the Bay City facility will include hands-on activities, demonstrations, a live planetarium show and telescope observation from the planetarium rooftop, officials said.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.

Within the Orbiter would be an Earth entry system designed to clean, contain, and deliver the samples with a landing in the ...

The Sun is the center of orbit for every planet in the Solar System. The Earth, at times, finds itself in a direct line of sight between the Sun and another planet during these orbits. Mars will ...