Its famous red color has earned it the ... has a radius of 930 to 1,300 miles (1,500 to 2,100 km). Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet. This new ...

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead NASA, entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, faced questions from senators on Wednesday about ...

In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he and Senator Ted Cruz engaged ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

The moon and Mars will also be only a few hours past conjunction ... shine from between the long horns of the bull just above its head. Want to keep up to date with more night sky events like ...

And he committed to maintaining NASA’s Artemis mission at least through its next voyage ... has called the agency’s moon focus a “distraction” and promoted a crewed Mars mission.

China is making final preparations for the launch of a three-person replacement crew for its orbiting space station that will ...

Through its "Moon to Mars" program, NASA plans to send the first crewed missions to Mars by the end of the next decade. To fulfill this bold vision, the agency is investigating advanced ...

The launch of China's Shenzhou-20 is the next step in a tense race between NASA and China to create bases on the moon, and ...

Moon Vs. Mars: Trump's NASA Pick Says Both Can Be Done ... noting intense competition over the moon with China, which aims to send its own astronauts there by 2030. "I am hard pressed to think ...

we don't have to make a binary decision of Moon versus Mars," Isaacman said ... offering the agency its only U.S. ride for astronauts to space and a moon lander that will land crews on the ...