The Red Planet beckons us toward it, and the day draws closer when humans will walk on its dusty surface, and the moons of ...

The Perseverance rover found the strange rock near the rim of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometres) Jezero crater, which ...

Research in space is about more than discovery. It is a strategic asset and soft power that attracts partners and supports ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, now set for February 2026, aims to send astronauts around the Moon. It is just one of many space ...

Analysing landscapes in the UAE has helped scientists in Abu Dhabi conclude that water flowed beneath the surface of Mars ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...

Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories. The Phobos-Grunt mission, Russia’s endeavor to explore Mars’ moon ...

At night, the sky on Mars looks dark and full of stars, even more than on Earth. The air is thin, so stars look clearer and brighter. Mars has two small moons—Phobos and Deimos. Phobos moves quickly ...

A 2008 photo of Phobos in false color taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2008. Credit: NASA In the first volume of his Mars trilogy Red Mars, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has ...

Within the Solar System we could say that Mars is like the little brother of planet Earth and an ideal destination to explore. Mars has a diameter of 6,794 kilometers, 53% the diameter of Earth. Its ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...