The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday, March 15, announced that the Mars mission will be launched by the end of 2026.(REUTERS) SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Friday that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Tesla humanoid bot Optimus. Musk suggested in a post on X that human landings ...

Back in 2022 American space agency NASA slammed a spacecraft ... On March 12, for instance, it performed a flyby of planet Mars, using its gravity to alter its trajectory and saving months of ...

As far as plans of sending Optimus to Mars are concerned, they are more likely a technical showcase. Whether Starship is able to perform a successful uncrewed mission to Mars by the end of 2026 is ...

The update follows several recent disappointments for the world's first private space firm and Musk's long-term vision of colonizing Mars. What is Starship and what will it do? Starship — the ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday ... just swung past Mars on Wednesday.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

The asteroid probe Hera has taken a flyby of Mars and captured impressive images of Deimos, the smaller of the Red Planet's two moons. The space probe activated a total of three instruments during ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission's gravity-assist flyby of Mars on March 12, 2025.

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On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...