The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

NASA awarded Houston-based Intuitive Machines a $2.5 million contract, which the company said it would use to help develop a ...

The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

Firefly confirmed a target landing date of March 2. The Hakuto-R lander, called Resilience, is taking an even slower path to the moon. “It’s a low-energy trajectory,” Nozaki said.

They shared the ride to save money, taking separate roundabout routes for the monthslong journey.It’s take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago.

2 Private Lunar Landers Head Toward the Moon in a Roundabout Journey CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and ...

With the nearly full moon shining overhead, two companies, one American and the other headquartered in Japan, launched privately developed robotic lunar landers early Wednesday, sharing a sky-lighting ...

The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week. On Monday evening (Jan. 13), the Full Wolf Moon passed in front of Mars in what's known as a lunar occultation, during which another ...

If you're looking forward to the Wolf Moon this week – the first full Moon of 2025 – you're in for a treat as the planet Mars will be visible right next to it in the night sky. On January 13 ...