OSIRIS-REx drew on decades of our experience building spacecraft for planetary exploration, incorporating technologies and design approaches from missions including Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is targeting Oct. 19 for the launch of a first-of-its-kind sample return ...
A Japanese-led mission has launched to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock ...
October 15, 2026 8:16 pm ET | Japan's space agency is getting ready to launch the MMX mission to study the moons of Mars, ...
AM on the morning of October 20, 2026, the H3 Rocket Flight 10 successfully lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture!As usual, I am delivering the TVer news with a time del ...
JAXA launches the MMX mission to Phobos today on an H3 rocket, aiming to return 10g of Mars moon material to Earth by 2031.
After decades of setbacks, Japan is assembling the technology, partnerships and patience required for a return to the Red Planet, and for a role in the next era of planetary exploration. The first ...
Asteroid Bennu origin discovery: ETH Zurich's Science Advances study reveals Jupiter filtered early solar dust into a water-ice-line transition zone near the asteroid belt 4.5 billion years ago, ...
US officials canceled NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return program, leaving potential evidence of ancient life sitting on Mars. Could China beat them to it?