Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: ...

You’re a spacecraft at Mars. You’ve just reached the epic milestone of 25,000 orbits around the red planet ... It’s a rocky planet like Earth. It’s inhospitable and bizarre, but also ...

This apparent change in direction is caused by the motion and positions of Earth and Mars as both planets orbit around the sun. Mars orbits the sun on a much more distant path than Earth.

SpaceX will create Marslink as a first step towards greater than petabit per second communication between Earth and Mars. Marslink aims to establish a high-speed data relay system—capable of ...

Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to leave Earth's orbit, said sending crews to Mars was ... atop a Saturn V, before completing 10 orbits around the Moon.

Scientists have uncovered geological evidence indicating that the gravitational interplay between Mars and Earth triggers a 2.4-million-year cycle of deep-sea circulation and warming of our planet ...