While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

This alignment of bodies in space is called ... While the moon may appear to slightly dim, it will be incredibly subtle, without any difference visible until around 12:30 a.m. ET Friday, according ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The nearly 12-foot optical and infrared telescope is one of the largest in the world. Using the telescope, in one night, Ashton took about 44 photos of Saturn over a three-hour long exposure.

Aegir: Discovered on December 12 ... moon spews its ocean out into space; in 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft found icy water particles gushing from the surface at approximately 800 miles per ...

Photograph by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Instead, these lumpy objects, each just a few miles ... a mid-sized moon discovered in 1898 and whose eccentric, backwards orbit has long marked ...

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface ... a partnership with Japan's space agency JAXA, is taking a long way to the moon to save on fuel, arriving about ...

“These are small little rocks floating in space ... 12, 2025 The moons are “irregular,” approximately potato-shaped and only a few miles across. For comparison, the diameter of our moon ...

The H-3 rocket blasted off from the Tanegashima Space ... moon landing then captured lunar data. The H-3 is designed to carry a 6.5 metric ton payload and over the long-term, the agency wants ...