Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, is a subject of fascination for astronomers. Though significantly smaller than Earth, this red-hued world has two moons that continue to spark debate among ...

India landed successfully on the moon, outdoing Russia, which crashed. And NASA brought back its first samples of an asteroid. These are just a few of 2023’s cosmic hits and misses.

By precisely tracking the orbit of over 156,000 asteroids, the ESA star-surveying satellite Gaia has potentially found over 350 previously undiscovered asteroid-moon binaries.

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

The moon, Mars, asteroids and Jupiter: China reveals ambitious space exploration plans. Andrew Jones. Thu, October 17, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC. 4 min read.

In the next decade, NASA and its collaborators are turning their gaze back to the Moon. The agency is looking to land astronauts there in 2025 as part of the ongoing Artemis program; this would be ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than that: they show an incredible diversity in size, shape, composition and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon, asteroids and brand-new rockets topped the world’s space news in 2023. Elon Musk’s monster rocket made it to space on the second test flight before exploding ...

The moon, asteroids and brand new rockets topped the world's space news in 2023. Elon Musk's monster rocket made it to space on the second test flight before exploding again. India landed ...