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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the H3 rocket carrying the MMX Martian Moons eXploration probe on October 20 from Tanegashima Space Center, aiming to return the first …
Japan's space agency has launched the Martian Moons eXploration mission, which will travel to Mars, land on Phobos, collect samples, and return them to Earth by 2031.
NASA conducted a hot-fire test of an RS-25 engine as part of preparations for future Artemis missions using the Space Launch System, the agency's heavy-lift rocket for lunar exploration.
China is advancing two commercial resupply vehicles for its Tiangong space station, with the Qingzhou prototype already in orbit and a second mission planned for early 2027, while the reusable …
The Orionid meteor shower will peak in 2026, offering Maryland skywatchers a chance to see debris from Halley's Comet. The annual event occurs when Earth passes through the comet's dust …
SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, continuing the rapid expansion of its broadband megaconstellation and adding to the growing orbital population …
Greece is inviting the public to propose a name for its first national astronaut mission, a competition designed to give citizens a direct stake in the country's emerging human spaceflight …
Detailed simulations of the early universe suggest that the compact red sources captured by the James Webb Space Telescope could be young black holes growing at extreme rates, potentially explaining …
The OGR Torino hosted «Torino Spazio Futuro – Space Horizons: The New Space Economy», an event organized by ANGI with support from Fondazione CRT, where institutions, businesses and researchers discussed …
Japan's Martian Moons eXploration mission will study Phobos and Deimos and return samples to Earth, offering clues about the red planet's past and the origins of its moons.
NASA has officially concluded its OSIRIS-REx mission, which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth, marking a major milestone in planetary science.
Japan's H3-24L debuts with the MMX mission to Mars' moons, while SpaceX flies three Falcon 9s, Rocket Lab launches Electron, and China conducts four launches in a packed global schedule.
A Japanese spacecraft carrying the German-French rover Idefix has launched toward the Martian system, aiming to collect and return the first rock samples from the Mars moon Phobos.
Europe's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli demonstration lander arrived at Mars on Oct. 19, 2016, marking a milestone in the European Space Agency's effort to study the planet's …
The European Space Agency's Euclid mission, built to map dark matter and dark energy, has discovered a long-period comet in images taken in September 2026. The object, designated C/2026 S1 …
Japan's space agency has launched the MMX mission to Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, aiming to land a small French-built rover and return the first samples from the Martian …
NASA's Artemis 2 crew used an MIT Lincoln Laboratory infrared laser system to transmit high-definition video and images from lunar orbit at up to 260 megabytes per second, enabling unprecedented …
Astronaut Jenni Gibbons discusses her training for Artemis II, the first crewed lunar flyby in more than five decades, and the broader push toward sustained lunar exploration.
Japan's MMX spacecraft is set to launch on a mission to collect about 10 grams of dust from one of Mars's moons and bring it back to Earth, offering a …
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a new image of NGC 1827, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Columba, seen nearly edge-on and notable for its prominent dust …
