The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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Chennai: If you spotted six planets in a row in Jan, try your luck again at this month-end as Mercury will also be visible.

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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.