ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches. (CREDIT: SOHO (ESA & NASA), NASA/SDO/AIA, JHelioviewer/D. Müller) A storm from ...

Image: This full-circle view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called “Troy,” where Spirit became embedded in soft ...

PASADENA, Calif. – The team operating NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit plans diagnostic tests this week after Spirit did not report some of its weekend activities, including a request to determine ...

Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has peered deeper into the subsurface of the Martian moon Phobos than ever before, finding hints of unknown structures that could be clues as to the moon's origin.

NASA is seeking a second batch of volunteers to test out living facility that will replicate life on Mars. Scott talks with behavioral ecologist Kelly Weinersmith about the experiment. Recently, NASA ...

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer fail. On Mars on May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth. That month, Earth ...