NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the ...
DEADLY space radiation and rapid outbreaks of disease are just a few of the official Nasa dangers that visitors to Mars will face. The space agency holds a list of “five hazards of human ...
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.
The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week. The result? A stunning lunar occultation of Mars that was seen by large parts of North America and western Africa. Luckily, plenty of ...
Additionally, Mars recently passed perigee on Jan. 12, its closest point to Earth in its orbit around the sun, which makes it slightly larger in the sky. The result? A stunning lunar occultation of ...
Egyptians called it "Her Desher," which means "the red one." Mars takes 687 days, or 1.8 years, to orbit the sun. It has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. This story was updated to add new information.
With the full moon around, it may be hard to see right before the occultation. This will take place just before 9:30 p.m. on Monday night. The occultation will take about an hour and then Mars ...
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.
This process involves two icy bodies briefly merging and then separating, leaving Charon in a stable orbit around Pluto ... the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from ...
NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has been rotated to capture imagery of the Red Planet that would be similar to what an astronaut would see. Odyssey Deputy Project Scientist Laura Kerber explains.
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...
First, a new robotic spacecraft would land near the Perseverance rover, which would then hand over about 30 of its rock samples to launch into orbit around Mars. Yet another spacecraft ...