Light plays an important role in regulating our sleep/wake cycle, and our bodies are ultra-sensitive to it. As a result, the ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the ...

To get materials to the Moon, NASA estimates the initial cost at around US$500,000 per pound. Still, manufacturing things in ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

"IMU (inertial measurement unit) reports lunar gravity, and it is stable," another controller reported, prompting the start of applause from onlookers. Will Coogan, the chief engineer, then came ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

Under Earth's gravity, the robot's own weight is sufficient to support the drill's penetration. However, lunar gravity is only one-sixth of Earth's, and asteroids often exhibit ultra-low gravity ...