By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

The Mastcam-Z camera on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the sun. Credit: ...

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1 safely touched down on March 2 within the targeted Mare Crisium landing zone.

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...

In his inaugural speech in January, Trump did not mention the moon but vowed that American astronauts would “plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.” Key leaders in Congress ...

And the Trump administration could soon be turning the agency’s focus from the moon to Mars. This trifecta – at a time when the federal government is obsessed with cutting costs – could ...

NASA's Artemis campaign will use human landing systems, provided by SpaceX and Blue Origin, to safely transport crew to and from the surface of the moon, in preparation for future crewed missions to ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

Curiosity celebrates a big win with the discovery of siderite, offering clues to Mars' ancient carbon cycle. Despite a slip ...

On Earth and Mars, iron and magnesium are some of the main contributors to igneous rocks, which form from the cooling of magma or lava,' the space agency said. 'These rocks can include dark ...