Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Frozen dunes on Mars halted by carbon dioxide frost Research examines Mars' past water presence and climate shifts Insights into Mars' climatic history and implications for life ...

SpaceX readies its seventh test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever designed. The trial will test upgrades to ...

A mysterious island appeared in the Caspian Sea in 2023 due to a mud volcano eruption and vanished by the following year, ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures stunning images of frozen sand dunes on Mars, revealing clues about the planet's ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, taken a photo in September 2022 and made public in December 2024, shows a top-down view ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them ...

Ancient rainstorms may have sculpted the red planet, similar to the monsoon rains that helped shape the Southwest’s landscape ...

using data from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA satellite that has been searching for evidence of ancient water on Mars since 2006. The dark rocks are theorized to ...