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

Launched atop an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center just after 3:40 p.m. Eastern on Monday, the Martian Moons ...

An ambitious Mars mission is scheduled to launch Monday afternoon from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Led by the ...

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

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

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

Japan has launched a potentially historic mission to scoop up soil samples from Phobos — one of Mars' two lumpy, potato-esque ...

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or Maven, spacecraft arrived at Mars in 2014, making it NASA’s youngest orbiter. It was only briefly the youngest in the international Mars family, as the ...

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

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has broken the world record for the longest distance driven by any type of vehicle on another world's surface. The rover hit a distance of 28.

Most planetary scientists will tell you the heyday of Venus exploration was more than a generation ago. That is about to ...