With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...

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It's the largest drill NASA has ever sent to space, and it will dig deeper into Mars than ever before. The mission? Uncover clues to one of the most outstanding mysteries in our solar system.

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the ...

Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon by 2030. Simultaneously funding ambitious human and robotic programs would ...

The sun is currently at solar maximum. This means that the ... Part of MAVEN's capabilities includes an "early warning system that lets other Mars spacecraft teams know when radiation levels ...

Four of them — Venus, Mars ... a different scope of cosmic events, including a lunar eclipse this coming March, meteor showers, and a new comet that will enter the solar system for the first ...

The Romans had different names for the Greek gods, and so they were the ones to eventually call it Mars. Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System, and it gets its name from the leader of ...