Jezero Crater is the home of NASA's Perseverance rover. See a bird's-eye view of the crater with this animated flyover ...

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 ...

Astronomers believe they may have found the final resting place of Luna 9, the Soviet spacecraft missing since it landed on the Moon on February 3, 1966. On January 31, 1966, the Soviet Union launched ...

Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

One look at recent images released by the European Space Agency may cause you to wonder if spiders are on the cusp of bursting forth onto the Martian surface. But arachnophobes have nothing to fear, ...

Since launching in February of 2020, the Solar Orbiter probe has been zeroing in on the Sun with a suite of instruments designed to unravel some of its secrets. Among those is an advanced ultraviolet ...

Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, has been discovered Venus.

Consumed by the hubris of youth, Icarus thought himself invincible as he calmly fastened a pair of homemade wings and prepared to fly. The wax-and-feathers ensemble had been made by his father, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A sun-studying spacecraft nabbed its first footage of a solar outburst before its science mission ...