Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf Moon" drifted across Mars, briefly swallowing the Red Planet from the sky.

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 three bodies will be ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

IMAGINE your home was powered by the dirt in your back garden. Well, that could be a reality for future lunar astronauts.

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...

Though NASA's "Artemis" Moon mission was announced in Trump's first term, he has since openly mused about heading straight to Mars, prompting concerns that China or others could fill the gap on ...

The innermost moon, Phobos, has lots of craters and is roughly 13.8 miles (22.2 km) in diameter. In about 50 million years, it is expected to break up or crash into Mars. Deimos orbits 2.5 times ...

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

Moon Vs. Mars: Trump's NASA Pick Says Both Can Be Done at the Same Time By David Shepardson and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's nominee to lead NASA, entrepreneur ...

Along with the president's call to eventually send astronauts to Mars, senior advisor Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has called NASA's Artemis moon program a "distraction" and "jobs-maximizing ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman believes the US can simultaneously handle missions to both the moon and Mars. Isaacman ...

The billionaire is in Washington for a confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in which conflicting views on the moon and Mars as a ...