"Curiosity was captured in what is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet." ...

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...

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

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is so small that, on the surface of Mars, Deimos would only appear about as ...

Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 Payments and an occasional commercial astronaut, has answered questions on his plans for the USA's space program during a confirmation hearing for the role of NASA chief.

And increasingly local people don't want them built nearby. Putting data centres in space – either in orbit around Earth, or on the Moon - the theory goes, means they can't do quite so much harm.

Though NASA's "Artemis" Moon mission was announced in Trump's first term, he has since openly mused about heading straight to Mars, prompting concerns that China or others could fill the gap on ...

Along with the president's call to eventually send astronauts to Mars, senior advisor Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has called NASA's Artemis moon program a "distraction" and "jobs-maximizing ...

(AP Photo/John Raoux, File) Trump’s NASA pick also reiterated that he plans to go forward with missions to the moon while pursuing the wider goal of sending humans to Mars in the future.

“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 ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman believes the US can simultaneously handle missions to both the moon and Mars. Isaacman ...