NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

Discover the red planet like never before! This month offers a unique opportunity to witness Mars in stunning detail. From ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Mars during a global dust storm in ... Sometimes, these storms go global, turning the red planet into a dusty version of a snow globe.

From orcas wearing salmon hats to April's total solar eclipse, it's been a big year for science news. We've brought together ...

In 2003, Hubble found a massive exoplanet. There's nothing too unusual about that, but closer inspection revealed the planet, called PSR B1620-26b, to be quite weird. It orbits not one but two ...

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to ...

Why it's so special: This iconic montage features images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune captured between 2014 and 2024 as part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Outer Planet Atmospheres ...

See the year’s most striking images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, NASA’s Mars rover and the best sky watching on offer ...

January 2025 offers a series of spectacular celestial events for stargazers. The month kicks off with the Quadrantid meteor ...

Yet Hubble's discovery was controversial. Perceived wisdom had been that planets could not have formed so early in the 13.7-billion-year history of the universe because there hadn't been enough ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Giant, gas-rich planets may have been able to form more easily in the very early universe than ...