On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

In November 2011, NASA launched a space mission to explore the planet Mars through a vehicle known as Curiosity. After a long journey, the rover landed on the red planet on August ...

NASA canceled its plan to bring samples of rock from Mars back to Earth. The Perseverance rover has been traversing the ...

Mars has long been cast as a frozen desert, but fresh data from China’s Zhurong rover are forcing scientists to picture ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Jupiter steals the show this week as the solar system’s largest planet reaches opposition, shining ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Plans to retrieve Marian rocks that may contain signs of extraterrestrial life appear to have been abandoned by the US ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

NASA Curiosity rover, which launched from Florida in 2011, captured panoramic image of Mars that resembles a sunset on Earth.