Scientists are especially interested in regions like Shalbatana Vallis because they preserve evidence that Mars was once far ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

NASA could soon gain a more powerful energy source for missions far beyond Mars ...

Orbiter SN3 deploys from the stack of payloads on the Transporter-8 rideshare launch June 12. The spacecraft started spinning a short time later because of a software glitch. Credit: Launcher ...

To misquote Oscar Wilde, to lose one mission may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...

A spacecraft from the European Space Agency has captured new video of the sun's surface, showing plasma swirling on the star's "otherworldly" surface, according to a news release from the organization ...

NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter is one of seven currently circling the red planet (three of them belonging to NASA), capturing imagery and performing tasks from way up to help scientists learn more about ...

A spacecraft has spied a spiky “hedgehog” on the sun and watched a solar flare in ways never done before. The Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, launched in ...