FILE PHOTO: SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its Super Heavy booster is launched on its eighth test at the company's Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., March 6, 2025.

In the next decade, space agencies plan to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth. But what if these rocks contain alien ...

An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Americans will have to stay up late or get up really early this week to see the latest celestial event – a total lunar eclipse. The Sun, Earth, and Blood Moon will align on Thursday night and Friday ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on ...