The European Space Agency launched Hera in 2024 to test asteroid-deflection techniques in deep space. The agency aims to improve planetary defense measures. Canada’s Carney sends a message to ...

The ESA's Mars Express, which has been orbiting the red planet for over 20 years, also contributed observations of the moon. Results from the encounter should help guide operational planning for a ...

"We want to get to Mars. We don't want to stop there." Artemis II astronauts talk Moon and future Mars missions at SXSW 2025.

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Mars for instance has two small moons ... The notion of a hidden moon orbiting Earth while unlikely given current scientific ...

When the first shots of the moon appeared, many of the Hera team ... Deimos is tidally locked, meaning one hemisphere ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The Moon lies near the border between Leo and ... Named for a sea goddess in Greek mythology, this classic main-belt asteroid orbiting beyond Mars was discovered by German astronomer Albert ...

The ESA's Mars Express, which has been orbiting the red planet for over 20 years, also contributed observations of the moon. Results from the encounter should help guide operational planning for a ...