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On August 17, 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall spotted Mars' largest moon through the world's biggest telescope. His discovery opened the door to understanding our planetary neighbor in ways that changed space exploration forever.
Japan's MMX spacecraft has reached its launch site, ready to bring back the first-ever samples from a Martian moon. If successful, the mission will help scientists solve a 4.5-billion-year-old mystery about how Mars formed.
For the first time in human history, a spacecraft has photographed Earth disappearing behind another object from the surface of another planet. NASA's Perseverance rover caught our home world playing cosmic peek-a-boo with Mars' moon Phobos.
Japan's spacecraft will attempt something never done before: collect samples from Mars' moon Phobos and bring them back to Earth. The mission launches October 19 after a two-year delay, with samples expected home in 2031.
Japan's space agency is launching a groundbreaking mission to bring back rocks from Phobos, one of Mars' moons, which could solve decades-old mysteries about how these celestial bodies formed. The samples, expected to arrive on Earth in 2031, will be the first moon rocks ever collected from beyond our own planet.
NASA's Perseverance rover looked up from Mars and witnessed a solar eclipse, giving humanity its first view of this cosmic event from another world. One day after Earth enjoyed its own total solar eclipse, Mars had its turn.
Scientists discovered that a single ancient asteroid collision may have reshaped nearly the entire surface of Deimos, Mars' mysterious smaller moon. New computer simulations and spacecraft images reveal how one impact created both the moon's giant southern crater and its strangely smooth, dusty surface.
A spacecraft on a seven-year journey to explore a metal-rich asteroid just sent back thousands of breathtaking images of Mars. The rare views captured during a May flyby reveal the red planet like few have seen it before.
A spacecraft bound for a metal asteroid just gave us breathtaking views of Mars along the way. NASA stitched the images into a mesmerizing time-lapse that shows craters, ice caps, and rusty deserts from space.
A three-day science festival is transforming Bremen's largest park into an open-air laboratory where kids and families can build robots, crash-test paper bridges, and explore how cameras work. Best part? It's completely free.
A NASA-funded spacecraft concept could survey minerals on the moon, asteroids, and Mars' moons in a single mission. The technology could help identify valuable resources before sending expensive mining missions.
After Artemis II's historic Moon flyby, the first since 1972, six groundbreaking space missions are set to launch by 2026. From hunting for lunar water to discovering Earth-like planets, these missions promise to transform our understanding of the cosmos.
Space rover technology is now delivering food through war zones and minefields without risking aid workers' lives. Machine learning maps earthquakes in days and predicts hunger crises 90 days ahead.
NASA's Psyche spacecraft will skim just 2,800 miles above Mars this Friday, using the planet's gravity to slingshot toward a mysterious metal asteroid. The dramatic flyby could reveal stunning crescent views of Mars and even detect hidden dust rings around the red planet.