"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

Mars looks like it’s about to make a U-turn in the night sky – at least, from Earth it looks that way. Since Dec. 7, 2024, the red planet has been making its westerly retrograde. But on Monday, that ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...