Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists used simulations to understand the role disruptive impacts play on icy moons ...

Powerful collisions in the outer Solar System may have changed the fate of icy moons in a surprising way. New simulations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the Solar System and ...

Japan's MMX mission aims to uncover Phobos' origins by returning samples from Mars' moon, potentially reshaping solar system ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists provided simulations to understand the role disruptive impacts play ...

Searching for clues on Phobos and Deimos. Damond Benningfield The Mars Moons eXploration spacecraft will fire its thrusters to maneuver into orbit around Mars (depicted in this digital art). JAXA Mars ...

The landers are not always successful. And so then you’ve put in blood, sweat, and tears to get your research project to the ...

A new NASA-funded spacecraft concept could help future explorers identify mineral resources on distant planets and moons ...

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...

JWST has uncovered surprising clues that Neptune’s strange inner moons may be the wreckage of an ancient cosmic catastrophe. Researchers detected clay-like minerals on Larissa, Galatea, and Neptune’s ...

The origins of Phobos and Deimos remain at the forefront of planetary science, with two principal scenarios under active debate: capture of primitive asteroids into Martian orbit and in situ formation ...

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth, although a rival Chinese mission aims to make it back ...