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

Social media has been a buzz this week about an event Friday morning before sunrise. The Moon will pass near Venus and Saturn ...

and the images sent back were key to helping plan for the Apollo landings. Lunar Orbiter 1 also managed to return the first picture of Earth from the Moon; the image, fuzzy and full of stripe ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic ...

However, any specific lunar occultation of Mars (or indeed any planet) can only be seen from a small area of the Earth's surface. That's because the moon is far closer to the Earth than Mars ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up ...

A number of people who've seen NASA's annual lunar phase and libration videos have asked what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth. This video answers ...

Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and deserts. This image was stitched together from a series of photos from the Viking Orbiter — one of the communications relay stations ...

In July 2020, ahead of the period of time when Mars and Earth ... orbiter mission On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy, in a passionate speech to Congress, tasked the nation with putting a man on ...

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's ... The innermost moon, Phobos, has lots of craters and ...

One recent model suggests Mars got its two faces because an object the size of Earth’s moon slammed into Mars near its south pole. Both hemispheres do have one thing in common: They’re covered ...

This picture was taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which is operated by the German Aerospace Center. Mars Express has been sending back high-resolution photos of the Red ...