About a year ago, in March 2024, NASA recorded another mysterious event ... in fact, a visible aurora — the first one detected from the Martian surface. This discovery was so surprising that Elise ...

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

It is the first time an aurora has been documented from the surface of another planet. Scientists trained rover instruments to catch the signal. The discovery ... at NASA's Moon to Mars Space ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological ...

A huge solar flare from the Sun may have caused radio blackouts last week, NASA experts have warned. Global communications ...

Instead, Mars experiences a unique type of aurora known as a solar energetic particle (SEP) aurora. Discovered by NASA’s MAVEN mission in 2014, SEP auroras happen when highly energetic solar ...

A new report on the U.S.'s readiness in the face of threats from space has revealed concerns about our vulnerability to major ...

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has detected the first aurora at Mars that’s visible to the human eye, good news for future astronauts who can savor the view on the red planet. European and US scientists ...

WASHINGTON - NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in green in the first viewing of an aurora from any planetary ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively little about them — especially Deimos, the smallest of the two. Both moons are "blacker than coal ...