NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission formally ended on Sept. 30, 2026, though scientists will continue to study the pieces of space rock it returned for decades.

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 ...

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

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

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

Monarch Quantum is supplying integrated photonics hardware for Infleqtion's NASA gravity sensor mission, which is targeting a ...

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

NASA has started to work on the development of new types of batteries for the purpose of improving energy supply for future ...

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

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