The Noachian period of Martian history, from 4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago, is the poster child for a wet Mars. There is abundant evidence from orbital images of valley networks and mineral maps ...

“Just speaking as a realist,” Dr. Zubrin tells me, there are too many challenges for Musk to overcome during the countdown to the next Earth-Mars orbital transfer window, which opens in ...

And, their weight and design mean they can also travel beyond Earth’s immediate neighborhood, potentially ferrying humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. By moving into orbit with its Commercial ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos ... following the collision, Dimorphos’ orbital period around Didymos shortened from 11 hours and 55 minutes to 11 hours and 23 minutes.