The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

It’s a virtual mission to Mars. Our first mission to Mars may still be a ways off, but people can take a virtual tour of the Red Planet thanks to a brand new video by the Mars Express Orbiter. People ...

At 11 A.M. EDT, the Moon will pass 4° south of Mars in the constellation Virgo. Shortly after sunset, the Moon, Mars, and Spica (Virgo's brightest star) will be briefly visible low on the western ...

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 ...

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people — selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants — who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return to the moon before attempting an unprecedented ...

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 ...

The spaceflight technology company, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is most famous for its human spaceflights from its rural Texas facility, Launch Site One. The process produces ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover stationed on Mars spotted a dome-shaped rock with a striking resemblance to a helmet used during medieval times. The martian rock, captured by Perseverance’s primary camera ...

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 ...

NASA plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by the 2030s to support long-term human exploration. The project aims to address power needs during lunar nights and provide high-power energy for ...