Space exploration is a risky endeavor, and unfortunately not all of the missions sent up will be successful, such was the ...

Nasa’s Artemis astronaut feared they would never get home as they flew around the Moon - Reid Wiseman, who led the first trip ...

Japan launches a ground-breaking mission to the Mars moon Phobos today, and you can watch live. The JAXA (Japan Aerospace ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft violently smashed into a tiny asteroid as a test of planetary defense. Now, a new probe ...

Scheduled to lift off as early as Monday, Oct. 19, at 3:41 p.m. EDT from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center, MMX is a first-of-its-kind mission that will not only study the moons of Mars but bring ...

The astronaut received the Stephen Hawking Medal at the Starmus Festival and shared his reflections after observing the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has now driven farther than any vehicle on the surface of another world. Most of that ground was covered with the rover choosing its own way around hazards, between stops ...

A Japanese-led mission is launching to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock more of the red planet’s secrets.

NASA is teaming up with Japan on a historic mission to investigate two small, oddly shaped moons orbiting Mars and, hopefully, bring a piece of one back to Earth. NewsNation's Xavier Walton reports ...

JAXA launches the MMX mission to Phobos today on an H3 rocket, aiming to return 10g of Mars moon material to Earth by 2031.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission today at 3:41 p.m. ET. The first-of-its-kind endeavor will send a spacecraft to survey both of ...