The third interstellar object ever detected in the solar system will make a close approach to Mars, giving the opportunity for spacecraft and orbiters around the red planet to capture the interstellar ...

Bruno Mars’s latest album “The Romantic” has debuted at No. 1 on the albums chart, making it his first full-length project to bow atop the tally. The singer’s fourth offering enters the Billboard 200 ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

Before you think of intergalactic spiderlike creatures, the geological frameworks, called boxwork, are called spiderwebs because of what they look like from space. The spiderwebs are low ridges with ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations—the low ridges seen here with hollows in between them—using its Mastcam on Sept. 26, 2025, the 4,671st Martian day (sol) of the ...

A Martian volcano once thought to be the result of a single eruption turns out to have a much more complex past. Orbital imaging and mineral data show it developed through multiple eruptive phases, ...

Composite images of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2024. Thin clouds of water ice, visible in ultraviolet light, give the Red Planet an icy appearance. The frigid north polar ice cap was ...