According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed into the proto-Earth. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

Credit: NASA This finding bodes well for plans to bring samples from Mars to Earth to analyze them with the most sophisticated instruments available here, the scientists say. "Our study proves ...

a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, a Sample Return Lander, and an Earth Return Orbiter (ERO). Unlike the baseline plans, Rocket Lab’s will perform under a firm-fixed price contract to ensure ...

According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed into the proto-Earth. Artwork of the young Earth-moon system. The Earth had ...