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.

Just before dawn on May 2, a camera 240 million kilometers from Earth caught a moment that seemed almost Earth-like: clouds ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The NASA Odyssey orbiter, which launched in 2001 from Cape Canaveral, snapped a 1st-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above the clouds before dawn.

Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth's tallest volcanoes, and its two neighboring volcanoes are often surrounded by water ice clouds, especially in the early morning. The image released Friday marks the ...