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Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: 'The timing was extremely lucky'
The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
Stunning Mars image highlights one of Red Planet's oldest cratered regions
Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.
What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2026
Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2026.
Good news for the moon: Famous asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smash into it in 2032
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.
Making hummus on the moon? Scientists just grew chickpeas in simulated lunar dirt
Tests involving growing chickpea plants in lunar regolith treated with vermicompost and fungi yielded harvestable crops — but are they edible?
Auroras on Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede look like Earth's northern lights, NASA spacecraft reveals
Ganymede's auroras splinter into small, bright patches — structures that mirror features seen in Earth's own auroral displays.
Lessons from 'The Martian': How astronaut poop could help us settle the Red Planet
By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts living on Mars could be able to create their own organic soil.
Rare glass from 6-million-year-old meteorite strike found in Brazil — but the crater is still missing
There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.
