Science News: 2024 was a year of tremendous breakthroughs in space exploration. From Isro's low-cost small satellite launch ...

On Christmas Eve, an autonomous spacecraft flew past the Sun, closer than any human-made object before it. Swooping through ...

Perseverance, NASA’s Mars rover, has completed a daring ascent of Jezero Crater's rim, tackling steep grades and rugged ...

NASA has harnessed solar power to drive exploration and innovation. From powering the Parker Solar Probe near the Sun to enabling the Mars Helicopter’s historic flights, solar energy fuels spacecraft, ...

Another way to estimate how quickly craters fade has been by studying the ring of blast marks left by InSight’s retrorocket thrusters during landing. Much more prominent in 2018, those dark marks are ...

Snow dots the Martian landscape in these images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"NASA's detailed accident report on Ingenuity's final flight in January 2024 reveals technical glitches that led to its crash ...

The otherworldly helicopter, with its 36 blades, is the size of an SUV—a major upgrade from Ingenuity's four blades.

The recent images taken by MRO show the solar panels have acquired the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet.

Designed by JPL and AeroVironment, the autonomous solar-powered Ingenuity became the first aircraft to conduct ...

It says though solar power may have a lower per unit cost, fission power is more robust and better suited to the environment on Mars ... living in a pressurised rover would require at least ...