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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...