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At first glance, you might expect this beautiful image to be from a big ground-based observatory or even one of the space telescopes. But this image was taken by "amateur" astronomer Rolf Wahl Olsen. We've featured his w...

Mars may not be tectonically active but that doesn't mean there's nothing happening on the Red Planet's surface. This video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the dramatic seasonal changes that take place in Mar...

Image caption: This image of a Martian rock illuminated by white-light LEDs (light emitting diodes) is part of the first set of nighttime images taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the robotic...