A Japanese spacecraft is rocketing toward Mars on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back ...

MINAMITANE, Japan, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Japan launched an uncrewed spacecraft toward the Martian moon Phobos on Tuesday on a ...

A Japanese-led mission has launched to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's spacecraft is expected to reach the Martian system in August 2027 and return samples ...

A Japanese-led mission launching on Monday hopes to find the answer to where Mars's two moons - Deimos and Phobos - came from ...

A spacecraft has launched from Japan headed for Mars' moon Phobos, where it will attempt to grab some moondust and bring it ...

Here's why it's grabbing a sample from moon Phobos.

NASA is part of a Japan-led mission known as MMX that in the coming days could send an uncrewed spacecraft toward Mars to ...

For the first time, samples are to be brought back to Earth from one of Mars' moons. On board the space probe launched into ...

NASA officials will give an update today (Oct. 15) on an upcoming Japan-led mission to send a spacecraft to Mars' two moons, ...

Japan launches MMX probe on world-first mission to Mars moon Phobos to collect samples and study the origins of the solar ...