Live images of Mars streamed by European Space Agency 00:26. Commemorating the anniversary of its first-ever planetary mission, the European Space Agency has released a time-lapse video that shows ...

On September 5, 2024, NASA’s Curiosity rover achieved a historic milestone by capturing the first-ever image of Earth alongside Phobos, one of Mars' moons, from the surface of the Red Planet.

On the night of 3 July 2003, the spacecraft was pointed backwards to obtain a breathtaking view of our planet and moon from a distance of just 4.9 million miles while on its way to Mars.

Twenty years ago, on the night of 3 July 2003, ESA's Mars Express spacecraft was pointed backwards to obtain this breathtaking view of the Earth-Moon system from a distance of eight million kilometres ...

In 2007, one year after the spacecraft arrived at Mars, the orbiter snapped a photo of the crescent Earth and moon as they were 88 million miles from the red planet.

That was the 4,295th Martian day that Curiosity has spent on Mars. The rough terrain of Mount Sharp, and above in the sky, Earth setting as Phobos rises. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano ...

Stock image of Mars (right) and an illustration of the view of Mars' retrograde motion in 2016 as seen from NASA Mission Control in Pasadena, CA.

Mars is our second-closest planetary neighbor, orbiting the sun once every 1.88 Earth years, or 687 days. On December 1, it hit the point in its orbit around the sun where it is as close to the ...