The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar system, announced the discovery on May 21. At roughly 435 miles wide, 2017 ...

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Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.

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Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech have used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially ...

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