Reaching Mars is no simple feat. While the idea of sending humans to the Red Planet is gaining traction, the journey itself ...

A stronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and beyond.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

The search for Pluto did not begin with Clyde Tombaugh ... Lowell became fascinated with the study of Mars and its purported canals. With family wealth to back him, he founded an observatory ...

Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Pluto was last and least of them. An icy dwarf only half the size of the United States, it was on average 3.7 billion miles from the sun. It also has ...

What do Uranus, Pluto, and an awe-inspiring celestial event have in common? They all converge on the iconic date of March 13.

the young astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, considered for decades a planet and “demoted” to dwarf planet status in 2008. Following the discovery, Tombaugh traveled down Mars Hill ...

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all present at the same time along a line in the night sky on Friday, NASA says.

All seven planets will be visible this time around, meaning Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. (Earth, of course, is the eighth planet, and poor Pluto was demoted in 2006 ...