The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A camera built to monitor daily clouds and dust storms ended up flagging the ...

HiRISE, the most powerful camera to leave Earth's orbit, will take ultra-sharp photographs that cover 3.5-mile-wide swaths of the Martian landscape, returning images with a 20,000-by-60,000 pixel ...

The HiRISE orbiter successfully photographed interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its high-speed journey past the red planet, offering scientists their closest view yet A camera designed to study the ...

A thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way take readings on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. To test the camera and its readings, the NASA mission detoured to Mars, relying on the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars ...

Cameras developed by 35 students at Northern Arizona University, as part of NASA's Escapade Mission, are on there way to Mars. A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can ...

A team from Northern Arizona University spent years creating a set of cameras that launched last week on a NASA mission to Mars. The instruments, called VISIONS for “visible and infrared observation ...

The European Space Agency has released a new flyover video that traces part of Mars’s southern highlands, offering a slow, close look at one of the pl.

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...