Elon Musk embraced a video praising the starship, Space X’s 120-meter reusable rocket built to carry 100-200 tons to the Moon or Mars per flight. As of 2026, this roadmap has

As an astronomer studying the universe beyond Earth, I’m fond of “outside the box” views almost by default. But one of my favorites is whenever a spacecraft takes a snapshot of our home world and the moon from a great distance. Stuck here on the ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red Planet. That means Phobos is closer to its planet than any ...

Almost 60 years after America won the first space race, the moon is once again the focus of a competition… Read More

Look to the southwestern horizon at sunset on Oct. 23 to see the slender form of the crescent moon shine close to Mercury and Mars in the evening sky. All three worlds will lie within 10 degrees of each other — roughly the width of your clenched fist ...

South Korea aims to make a Mars landing by 2045, President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday, outlining plans to spend about $70 billion over the coming decades on space exploration. The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about 22km in diameter) and Deimos (about ...

As the moon makes its monthly rounds in its orbit around the Earth, it frequently has encounters with bright stars and planets, with Saturn and Mars taking center stage in the nights ahead. In many ways, we can think of these gatherings in the night sky as ...

NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement earlier this week committing to put a nuclear reactor on the moon in 2030, the same