A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

This could be the end of the orbiter that studies the Red Planet’s atmosphere and relays communications between NASA and its ...

For decades, satellites passing over Earth's north and south poles have experienced a flow of ions from the upper atmosphere into space. Dubbed the 'polar wind', the source of this flow had eluded ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched in 2025 to study Mars’ magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped away the planet’s atmosphere over time ...

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A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that launched from Florida and has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade.

Astronomers are scratching their heads at the odd chemistry, which hints at soot clouds and possibly diamond formation deep ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

NASA loses contact with MAVEN, its Mars orbiter studying the planet's atmosphere, after a decade of successful operations.