The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire, that would be capable of incurring significant deformation on rugged terrain, before springing back to its original shape.

While the general interval is around 26 months, some oppositions can be more closely spaced due to the elliptical nature of Mars's orbit. For instance, "perihelic oppositions," which occur when ...

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During the speech, Trump vowed to "pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars". As soon as he said that ...

Mars, the enigmatic Red Planet, has long puzzled scientists with a dramatic geological contrast between its hemispheres, known as the Martian dichotomy. The planet’s southern highlands tower five to six kilometers above the smooth,

On Monday night, we will see the highlight of the month, as the full wolf moon occults (covers) Mars. In this 2022 astropic, the full moon and Mars had a close encounter. This will be similar to ...

Elon Musk's starring role in the new Donald Trump administration was confirmed as he appeared front and centre of his inauguration proceedings - and witnessed him pledge a mission to Mars.

Space is a big place, so keen stargazers will have the opportunity to see, or rather not see, Mars as it hides behind the moon before it has its own moment later in the week. Here's what to know ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several quasars, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that one of the quasar host galaxies has an unexpected spiral shape.

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars