Solar System

The European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover now has a detailed map with which to help find its way around the Red Planet when it lands sometime in the next decade.

Some of the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions, according to a new lab experiment.

An asteroid that slammed into Mars around 2.3 million years ago left one nine-mile wide crater and created 2 billion smaller craters.

Satellite images taken daily for one year shows a stunning glimpse of what the change of seasons looked like from space.

The SLIM spacecraft, Japan's first successful moon lander, has survived its second long, cold lunar night.

Humanity's activities and climate change are impacting the polar ice sheets, causing excessive melting, and this is slowing Earth's rotation, challenging official timekeeping standards.

New, specially edited photos show a previously unseen swirl of light surrounding the city-size comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is currently racing toward the sun and will later zoom past Earth.

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander has failed to send out a wakeup signal, confirming that its pioneering mission is over.

Earth just experienced the strongest solar storm since September 2017. It opened a crack in our planet's magnetosphere but failed to spark impressive auroras. Why?

Scientists and engineers are making progress on drilling technology that could access Mars' seemingly vast stores of near-surface water ice.