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

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

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 ...

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

This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken from time of its 2021 landing to Oct.

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 ...

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 ...