Mars Express, which is a 19-year-veteran spacecraft in orbit around Mars, came within 51.6 miles (83 kilometers) of Phobos on Sept. 22, 2022 and was able to probe beneath the moon's surface using ...

The Image That Started It All. The controversial square-shaped structure was originally captured by NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera back in 2001. Located at the top of a Martian crater, the feature ...

Building the first bases on the Moon and Mars will be far from easy. Unlike construction projects on Earth, putting up even prefab habitats on other planets makes deep-sea engineering look like a ...

This is not the first time researchers have suggested underground structures on the moon as a possible home for life. In 2017, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency discovered an enormous cave ...

Grooves On Mars' Moon Are Signs That It's Slowly Shattering, ... That weak structure seems to be held together by "a kind of mildly cohesive outer fabric," according to Erik Asphaug of Arizona ...

Technologies that extract water from moon dust, for example, could be applied to the regolith on Mars. The same goes for processes such as 3D printing, which would likely use the lunar (or Martian ...

This is crucial for understanding how the Moon has evolved since its formation,” Lognonné added. SEIS’s success on Mars and its selection for the next lunar mission comes after years of ...

Scientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted regolith.

The company 3D-printed a 1,700-square-foot simulated Martian habitat near Houston, Texas, called Mars Dune Alpha, where volunteers will conduct a simulated year-long Mars mission starting in the ...

At the moment, the Moon to Mars Program Office is still getting set up and hiring for key roles, according to Hawkins, but some changes have already begun. [Related: Meet the first 4 astronauts of ...

Lava tubes under the surface of both the moon and Mars are large enough to be the homes of planetary bases as humanity further explores the cosmos, a newly published study suggests. The research no… ...