Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...

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 ...

The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

Then the team used the spacecraft's engines to veer closer to Mars' orbit in what are called ... And near closest approach, ...

According to the spacecraft's operators at the European ... Even further afield, Pettinelli was part of a team that used radar loaded aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to discover the ...

Part of MAVEN's capabilities includes an "early warning system that lets other Mars spacecraft teams know when radiation levels begin to rise," the statement said. "This heads-up enables missions ...

The twin to the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, Phoenix was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars Surveyor spacecraft. They were originally part of the "better, faster, cheaper" program ...

Mars is a notoriously difficult target for space probes, somewhere that multiple missions have for various reasons failed to reach. We hope the Tianwen-1 mission is ultimately successful and that ...

Europa Clipper's flyby of Mars on March 1 will bring it within ... to getting a close-up look of the Red Planet with the spacecraft's radar and thermal imaging sensors — a cherry on top of ...

when Mars had a thicker atmosphere and a warmer climate. Something that makes Zhurong special is that it is equipped with a ground-penetrating radar that allows it to probe the Martian subsurface ...

An curved arrow pointing right. China's space agency just showed off its newest mission — a Mars probe set to launch in 2020. Video courtesy of Reuters. Follow TI: On Facebook Latest videos ...

The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars, during a close flyby. Deimos, the moon of Mars, appears in silhouette ...