Bypassing the moon and sending crews straight to Mars would be a serious error. Credit: NASA We’ve observed with concern a rising trend in human spaceflight ...

President Donald Trump's proposed NASA budget released Friday puts crewed missions to the Moon and Mars front and center -- slashing science and climate programs as it seeks to shrink the agency's ...

With recent cuts to Mars Sample Return, China will lead the charge to Mars and to the moon. Credit: NASA In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator ...

Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf Moon" drifted across Mars, briefly swallowing the Red Planet from the sky.

“I don’t think we have to make any tough trades” between a moon and Mars mission. Isaacman’s comments — in response to questions from Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Se ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet. This new ...

The second Moon is Deimos, measuring 9 by 7 by 6.8 miles (15 by 12 by 11), and it goes once around Mars in roughly 30 hours. It too has plenty of craters, but unlike its sibling it doesn't show ...

As per the recent study, Mars’ moons (Phobos and Deimos), may have originated from debris left behind after an asteroid was torn apart by the planet’s gravity. Published in Icarus, the ...

By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews reported on the moons of Mars in a special Science Times issue devoted to the Red Planet in 2020. Something’s not quite right about the moons of Mars.

Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red Planet. A shredded asteroid origin could help explain mysterious features of the small, odd-shaped moons ...