China lands a rover on Mars

Last week China landed a rover on Mars. Named Zhurong, it landed in the northern Utopia Planitia region and will … More

Ingenuity Mars helicopter moves to a new location

On Friday, the Ingenuity helicopter took its fifth flight on Mars. For the first time it landed in a new … More

See that cluster of bright objects in the above image? Those are fragments of a comet called C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) … More

NASA has released this beautiful close up of the rim of a Martian impact crater, taken by the HiRISE camera … More

Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe has successfully completed its mission at the asteroid Ryugu and is now on its way home. It’s … More

You probably saw the recent news that astronomers have spotted an object from interstellar space making its way through the … More

There have been a couple of recent discoveries of water in new places in the solar system. Last week a … More

Tomorrow there will be a total lunar eclipse which will be visible in much of North America and Asia. I … More