Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour ‘kiss-and-capture’ encounter after a grazing ...

For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.

Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day. Credit: ...

Aug. 14, 2024 — Scientists report that rock samples from Mars' Jezero Crater contain minerals that ... NASA's Mars InSight lander to derive a new impact rate for meteorite strikes on Mars.

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...