A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spent years drilling into Martian rocks ... telescope in the late 1700s. The first spacecraft to successfully reach Mars was NASA's Mariner 4 probe, in July 1965.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Airbus the contract to design and construct the landing platform for the ExoMars ...

About every 1.5 feet, the drill stops to extend the thermal probe into the surrounding rocks, dust, and pebbles. The ...

The Rosalind rover, designed to search for signs of past life on Mars, has been stranded since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has ... In May 2013, Curiosity started drilling into an area known as “Yellowknife Bay” in the Gale Crater. Scientists were interested in ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars.

Next year, Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained momentum on Mars. The asteroid probe Hera has taken a flyby of ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...