The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Perchlorate, plus abiotic oxidants, explains the Viking results and there is no requirement to postulate life on Mars. "The discovery of perchlorate on Mars by the Phoenix mission has provided a ...

"The discovery of perchlorate on Mars by the Phoenix mission has provided a basis for ... Good targets are salt deposits and polar ground ice." This new research has been published in Icarus.

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

As part of NASA's Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of Johnson Space ...

Intuitive Machine's second mission to the moon, IM-2, is set to launch Wednesday evening from KSC. Onboard is NASA science.

Mars," said Nicky Fox, associate administrator with NASA Science Mission Directorate during a prelaunch press briefing. Onboard this lander are multiple science and technology experiments.

Intuitive Machines collected some data for NASA before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday.

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...

The mission was to carry NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar ... the lander and a separate rover. For future missions, a hopper could serve a reconnaissance role, similar to how, on Mars ...

The Athena spacecraft, which is on a mission ... missions to Mars. If all goes to plan, Athena should be landing on the moon's south pole on Thursday, March 6. The Athena lander got off the ...