A thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way take readings on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. To test the camera and its readings, the NASA mission detoured to Mars, relying on ...

If you've spent any time perusing the carousel of raw images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, you might have stumbled across an odd subject: a tiny, intricate maze etched into a small plate ...

Studying these moons could help understand moons around extrasolar planets, too (SN: 1/13/22). “Even if this isn’t the way Mars’ moons formed in particular, it could be the way moons form ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since arriving there in dramatic fashion in 2021, has just shared an exquisite image of Deimos, one of the red planet’s two moons.

On March 12, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons, from 621 miles away while en route to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

Over 898 Mars days, the rover has collected 17 rock cores, taken over half a million images, and even launched a small rotorcraft called Ingenuity, which has completed 55 flights.

Scientists liken the instrument to a field geologist's hand lens. NASA got its first close-up pictures of Mars in 1965, when the Mariner 4 spacecraft zoomed past the planet and snapped 21 photos.