A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way. The Psyche mission, ...

Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may be made of precious ...

In 1977, NASA’s Viking 2 orbiter pulled off a historic flyby of Deimos, capturing high-resolution images of the moon’s surface. Deimos turned out to have a much smoother, dustier surface than the ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has captured a rather mesmerizing time-lapse video of Mars during its recent high-speed gravity assist flyby, offering a different view of the Red Planet’s craters, vast ...

SpaceX plans to send a crew of private astronauts on a mission to fly around Mars without landing. Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang will lead the Mars mission and be part of a separate lunar flyby ...

On its way to the Psyche asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, NASA’s Psyche mission spacecraft tested its instruments as it flew by the Red Planet on May 15, 2026, and the results are stunning. After ...

A comet will buzz Mars this Sunday (Oct. 19) in an epic encounter that has astronomers around the world tingling with excitement. Comet Siding Spring, also known as C/2013 A1, will miss the Red Planet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time lapse images taken from May 2 to 15 show the changing view of crescent Mars from the Psyche spacecraft. - ...