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Elon Musk wants to put people on Mars by 2030. Don't count on it.
Musk said SpaceX plans to launch five uncrewed Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, followed by the fi…
Tom Carter
No other asteroid is going to get closer to Earth in the next decade than the one set to fly by on September 1
Many asteroids come and go but most keep their distance from Earth as they fly past. Now one daring…
First-ever livestream from Mars beamed back images from the red planet despite technical difficulties
Never have images from the red planet been seen in near real-time. Inclement weather disrupted the …
Marianne Guenot
The green comet and Mars appear side-by-side this weekend. Spot them together in the night sky.
A green comet and the red planet debut in a colorful showdown this weekend. You can easily find the…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
An asteroid nearly the size of a skyscraper will whiz between the Earth and the moon on Saturday in a once-in-a-decade event
NASA said an asteroid this size passing so close to Earth happens once in a decade. The asteroid DZ…
Kelsey Vlamis
Watch NASA reveal the first video footage of its Perseverance rover landing on Mars
The footage could reveal the rover's entire descent and landing: a parachute deploy, jetpack maneuv…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Watch the first-ever video of a Mars landing from NASA's Perseverance rover
Cameras captured Perseverance's descent and landing, including the moments a 70-foot parachute depl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
China's new Mars probe took its first photo of the red planet as the mission prepares to make history
Tianwen-1 is the first Mars mission with an orbiter, lander, and rover in one expedition. It's desi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Mars and Venus will appear just a finger's width apart in the night sky on Monday and Tuesday. Here's how to see it.
Mars and Venus will be a mere half-degree apart, or about the width of an index finger at arm's len…
Aylin Woodward
We could be the last humans to see the green comet passing Earth for the first time since the Ice Age. Here's how, where, and when to watch it.
Bright green Comet ZTF may be visible to human eyes for the last time ever. Here's how, when, and w…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Kenneth…
This man may be the closest we have to someone living on Mars
"Most people think of Mars as this red, featureless, blurry sphere. But with this type of technolog…