NASA is working with California-based startup Inversion to advance a technology that could allow spacecraft to enter orbit around distant planets using their atmospheres instead of large amounts of ...

Phobos, it seems, is not long for this universe - at least on the large cosmic timescale. Astronomers have long known that ...

Most scientists think that Earth and Mars took shape this way from rocky pieces swirling around the young sun around 4.5 ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed a spectacular new view of mysterious, wind-carved cliffs on Mars that may hold evidence ...

On October 20th its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission lifted off from Tanegashima, an island in southern Japan. The ...

Mars is the obvious frontrunner, but it is far from an easy second home. The other candidates reveal just how rare truly human-friendly conditions may be.

Japan has launched the MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket for a five-year mission to study Phobos, collect at least 10 grams of material and return the samples to Earth in 2031.

Japan's Mars probe has launched. If successful, it will be the first mission to land on a Martian moon and return samples to ...

Japan’s MMX spacecraft launched on Tuesday, Oct. 20, and will collect soil from Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons.

Japan has launched MMX toward Mars, aiming to return at least 10 grams of material from Phobos in 2031. The mission will test competing explanations for the origins of Phobos and Deimos and ...

The MMX spacecraft is set to collect samples from one of Mars’ moons and deliver them to Earth. It is expected to reach Mars ...

Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system ...