NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will be launching the Martian Moons eXploration mission next year, which should ...

Six planets in the solar system have at least one moon. Both Earth and Mars are toward the lower end of the lunar count, as our home planet only has one moon, and Mars has two. But not all moons share ...

South Korea aims to make a Mars landing by 2045, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, outlining plans to spend about $70 billion over the coming decades on space exploration. The two small moons of ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...

Mars will put on a show in the second half of this month. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This has been a most interesting year ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Skywatchers across the globe are in for a treat this weekend ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is on a journey to Jupiter's moon, Europa, a frozen world believed to harbor a salty ocean beneath its icy crust — and possibly the conditions to support life. Credit: ...

A 3%-lit waxing crescent moon will be visible in the west just after sunset on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. Moon gazers across the globe will get the chance to look for a newborn moon in the early evening ...

NASA has released a short timelapse video of Perseverance's record-breaking drive on Mars, as engineers determine the rover should be operational until at least 2031. In July 2020, the Perseverance ...