Now, as the Houston-based company seeks to repeat the journey, its executives say they've made improvements to their new spacecraft, Athena, that should help it avoid the problems that impacted the ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study explores how variations in Mars' crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet's magmatic evolution and ... New Paper Examines the ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

Incredibly powerful marsquakes that violently shake the red planet don't always begin under the surface, research shows.

Last year was not a good one for a lunar lander company based in Pittsburgh named Astrobotic. In January, the company's first spacecraft finally launched after years of delays, carrying dozens of ...

So it’s hardly surprising that US President Donald Trump’s bold pledge at his inauguration – planting the American flag on Mars as “manifest destiny” – generated such chatter ...

Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform, or FLIP, rover will be the main payload on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander, slated to land in the Nobile region near the south pole of the moon.

Quakes shake Mars all the time. But many of these temblors originate in outer space. NASA's InSight lander recorded over 1,300 marsquakes between 2018 and 2022, including some monster temblors. Now, a ...

The remarkable geometric structure, estimated to be 3km wide, was initially detected by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) several years ago. However, it has recently been ...

The small lumps of rocks striking Mars can produce seismic events deeper than previously ... Charalambous is a member of NASA’s InSight lander team. He’s also the co-author of related papers published ...

The lander built by Firefly Aerospace has captured incredible views as it orbits Earth. Its next phase is an engine burn that will propel it toward lunar orbit Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent ...