On January 9, 2026, Mars reaches solar conjunction—meaning it aligns directly with the Sun, disappearing from our night sky as it crosses behind the Sun’s brilliance. This conjunction arrives amid a ...
The most powerful solar storm recorded at Mars in the current solar cycle has just given scientists a stark preview of what a human presence on the Red Planet will really face. Radiation levels spiked ...
When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest solar storm in more than two decades. The video shown below—made from images captured by NASA’s Solar ...
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has revealed the first evidence of the Zwan-Wolf effect on Mars, challenging long-standing ...