The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an ...

Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ? Mars, the planet the ancients feared and revered as the Red One, the Fiery One or Death Star made its closest pass to Earth in 60,000 years Wednesday, ...

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siccar Point, photographed by the Curiosity rover, is near Mars' Gale Crater. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; Processing & License: Kevin M ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...