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Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a ...

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace ‌themselves ​as CEO Elon ...

NASA has lost contact with one of its longtime Mars workhorses after the spacecraft abruptly stopped communicating. Maven was ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade ...

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...