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NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected the first aurora at Mars that's visible to the human eye, good news for future ...
Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...
It’s the first documentation of a Martian aurora that can be seen with the naked eye.
New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...
Elon Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring ...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...
According to NASA, the aurora on Earth may last only a few minutes, but on Saturn, it can last for days. In the 2010s, aurora ...
Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously thought. In a new study, researchers at the University of Rochester ...
From cosmic radiation to crushing isolation, the journey to Mars presents a web of interlinked dangers. NASA’s Human Research ...
On Earth, the most dangerous ultraviolet radiation for living organisms - UV - is blocked by the ozone layer. However, on Mars, the thin atmosphere, almost devoid of ozone, allows ...