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 ...

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...

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

A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on a quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.

NASA says it has mutually agreed to key contract actions with its partners to advance the development of humanity’s first ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for ...

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

The human heart may be able to adapt to prolonged weightlessness better than previously thought. That is the conclusion ...

JAXA said on Wednesday that the MMX spacecraft is in good health and teams are on track to conduct functional checks in the ...

Phobos and Mars’s other moon, Deimos, are small, respectively about 22km and 12km across, and look like lumpy potatoes. That ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is now less than a year from reaching the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter. And it has already made some ...

On March 1, 1982, a Soviet spacecraft parachuted onto the surface of Venus, one of the most hostile places in the solar ...