Japan launched a spacecraft Tuesday on a five-year mission to explore Mars' moons and bring samples back to Earth. The Japan ...

Japanese space agency JAXA has successfully launched a mission to visit the moons of Mars — and bring a sample back to Earth.

NASA researchers are developing the future of flight on Mars, laying the groundwork for helicopters with the ability to fly ...

Japan has launched the MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket for a five-year mission to study Phobos, collect at least 10 grams of material and return the samples to Earth in 2031.

Tokyo—Japanese scientists successfully launched a spacecraft Tuesday that aims to be the first to retrieve samples from one ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA shares an update on its multibillion-dollar effort to build a permanent moon base on the lunar south pole. On Tuesday, the U.S. space agency announced nearly $600 million in ...

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

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

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

For the first time ever, a spacecraft will travel all the way to the Mars system and return. But first, it has to get through the launch ...

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 ...