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

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

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

Koch will become NASA's acting deputy chief engineer on November 1, making her ineligible for future spaceflight assignments.

NASA is teaming up with Japan on a historic mission to Mars’ most mysterious moons, bringing a piece of one of them back to ...

From another SpaceX Starship launch to twin orbiters reaching Mercury, here are seven space missions to keep an eye out for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mars’ largely unexplored moons are getting their moment in the spotlight as a new mission prepares to take flight.

Scientists hope to finally answer a big question: did Mars capture an asteroid, or did the moons form from debris after a ...

NASA lost contact with its Maven spacecraft – the youngest of its Mars orbiters – at the end of 2025. The others in its fleet ...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch will step down from her role as an active astronaut and assume a new post within the agency. On ...