A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Mars Adventure by Brend ...

On Sunday (Jan. 12), the Red Planet will make its close approach of Earth at 8:32 a.m. EST (13:32 GMT). This event, known as perigee, causes Mars to appear bigger and brighter in the sky than usual, ...

The Blue Ghost lunar mission has captured a gorgeous image of Earth as it ramps up its journey toward the moon.

Therefore, a light shining from the surface of Mars would take the following amount of time to reach Earth (or vice versa): Michael Khan is a Senior Mission Analyst for the European Space Agency ...

Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now ... Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after ...

The European Space Agency’s Earth Return Orbiter — a planned spacecraft that will launch no sooner than 2027 — will then collect and transport the samples back to Earth. "Mars Sample Return ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was ... Yet another spacecraft, from the European Space Agency, would retrieve those samples, take them back to Earth and drop them off within a small disk-shaped ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Finally, after months of pondering how to get samples to Earth ... keeps Mars Sample Return in limbo. “Yet more studies and no firm decision,” Casey Dreier, head of space policy for the ...

when Mars is directly opposite the sun in Earth's sky — meaning Mars will be at its biggest and brightest as it nears its closest point to Earth. This is the only lunar occultation of Mars that ...