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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And the Trump administration could soon be turning the agency’s focus from the moon to Mars. This trifecta ... landers as it nears the end of its guaranteed funding.

If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in the southwestern sky.

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

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 ...

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 ...