Southwest Research Institute could lose more than $265 million if the cuts go through, including defunding missions already ...
Mars has two moons, but they're not quite like Earth's moon. That's raised a lot of questions about where they're from, ...
The irregular shapes and orbits of Mars’s two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, have long been a subject of scientific ...
The 6%-lit waxing crescent moon will be visible roughly 5 degrees above the horizon as the sun sets on Oct. 23, with Mercury ...
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 ...
ESA's Hera mission flying by Mars. See views captured with its Asteroid Framing Cameras. Credit; ESA - European Space Agency ...
On October 22, the Moon will achieve two close conjunctions, passing 5° south of Mars and 2° south of Mercury, before reaching its orbital apogee at 406,445 km (252,553 miles) from Earth. Observers ...
Yes, absolutely! When asteroids or comets hit rocky bodies such as the moon or Mars, they form impact craters that displace a large volume of material from the surface. Some of this material can be ...
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 ...
NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...
SpaceX has for more than two years been testing its massive Starship rocket from Texas for several future missions, including NASA's highly anticipated human moon landing. NASA had previously awarded ...
That's two in a row for Starship. SpaceX's Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, aced a suborbital test flight today (Oct. 13), following up on a similar success in late August.