A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

Earth and Mars showed very different responses to the same solar storm.

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner Solar System; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originated beyond Jupiter’s orbit. A group of ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey robotic spacecraft, which has been exploring Mars for over two decades, is set to complete an impressive milestone on June 30: 100,000 orbits around the Red Planet. Since its ...

Pioneer Astronautics has conducted a successful dynamic test of its Mars solar balloon inflation system. The experiment, performed at an altitude of 116,000 ft over Kuner Colorado on September 26, was ...