A system in the making could revolutionize the space industry by taking steps toward innovation. The agencies announced their intent to support and develop the power system, with plans to deploy ...

The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos and Deimos, may start to be unravelled in 2026 with the launch of a spacecraft that will eventually bring a chunk of Phobos back to Earth. “We are ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth traveling for. In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that he wants to send astronauts back to the moon as soon as possible, putting eventual Mars missions on the back burner. In an executive order on his ...

Hopes of colonising Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet, making it habitable for humans with a breathable atmosphere and clement temperatures. However, a recent study cast ...

A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system. Reading time 3 minutes Around 100 million years after the formation of the solar ...

Six planets in the solar system have at least one moon. Both Earth and Mars are toward the lower end of the lunar count, as our home planet only has one moon, and Mars has two. But not all moons share ...

The Moon passes 5° south of Mars at 9 A.M. EDT, then skims 2° south of Mercury at noon EDT. This evening, our satellite reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth in its orbit, at 7:30 P.M. EDT. At ...

They will charge $100 million per ton. SpaceX is going to try to get refueling and launches of the SpaceX Starship developed so that they can send an unmanned test mission in 2026. This test mission ...

As an astronomer studying the universe beyond Earth, I’m fond of “outside the box” views almost by default. But one of my favorites is whenever a spacecraft takes a snapshot of our home world and the ...