Wind vibrations measured by NASA’s InSight mission seismometer are mapped into wind speed and direction to detect major annual weather patterns and open new possibilities for planetary instrumentation ...

The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it ...

A collaborative research team has improved visual localization and topographic mapping techniques that enable China's Zhurong ...

To do that, I’ll use what’s called latitude and longitude.Lines of latitude run around the Earth like imaginary hoops and have numbers to show how many degrees north or south they are from the ...

A unique set of risks and challenges await the first astronauts on Mars. Deadly solar radiation, nighttime temperatures regularly dropping lower than -100 degrees Fahrenheit, and an unbreathable ...

This shoebox-sized instrument has just captured a remarkable image of the planet Mars and its enigmatic moon Deimos, marking a major milestone in the mission. Contribution to an International ...

Thousands of mysterious quakes on Mars that only happen during summer are unlike any known earthquakes, puzzling scientists. Since NASA’s InSight lander reached Mars in 2018, it has recorded ...

If this was the case, the rock could have originated far from its current resting place, and it could reveal how meteor strikes transport materials on Mars, NASA noted. This map shows the ...

The efforts made by humans to learn as much as possible about Mars are numerous, and NASA has an indispensable ally on the red planet. This is the Curiosity rover, which roams daily on Mars to ...