Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests these ingredients weren’t missing from the start. Instead, they were likely ...

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft captured impressive new views of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the solar system.

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

In a scary first, scientists have discovered a 2021 solar eruption so large that it was, for the first time, detected simultaneously on Earth, the Moon, and Mars, highlighting the radiation ...

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month.

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past.

NASA's Perseverance rover has once again captured a rare and captivating event on Mars: a solar eclipse caused by the passage ...

Mars Express captured the image in April 2022. ESA's tour of the chasms highlights landslides, dark sand dunes, mountain-size mounds that've been eroded by wind, and smaller bumps that may be ...

A tiny black hole may pass through our solar system once every ten or so years, researchers have suggested, and this could be detected by watching Mars wobble.

That supports theories that both Deimos and Phobos — Mars’ larger moon, which is nearly 17 miles (27 km) across at its widest point — formed in orbit when a large object, perhaps a dwarf ...