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Japan's space agency is set to launch the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft on October 20, aiming to land on Phobos, collect samples, and return them to Earth by 2031 …
The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft completed its penultimate Earth gravity assist on September 28, 2026, redirecting its trajectory toward Jupiter while testing eclipse survival strategies for its 2031 arrival.
Rocket Lab has pushed the first launch of its Neutron rocket to 2027 after discovering defects in carbon fiber tank domes, a setback that highlights the manufacturing and testing hurdles …
Lunar samples collected from both the near and far sides of the Moon will go on public display at the 16th Airshow China in Zhuhai, alongside more than 3,000 pieces …
A team led by the University of Warwick has documented WD J1330+6435, a white dwarf 280 light-years away in Draco whose sodium-rich atmosphere absorbs orange light and leaves a chartreuse …
NASA is preparing the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation observatory designed to investigate dark energy, dark matter, and the accelerating expansion of the universe, while also conducting a …
Launched on October 15, 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission set out on a seven-year journey to Saturn, where it would deliver the first probe to land on Titan and transform understanding …
The four-telescope Large-Sized Telescope sub-array at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory is finished, marking a major step toward the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory.
A SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station produced a glowing, jellyfish-shaped plume visible from hundreds of miles away. NASA has released photos and an explanation of the atmospheric …
NASA's Perseverance rover has broken the record for the longest distance driven by a rover on another planet, and mission planners say it is far from finished. The achievement comes …
SpaceX's early Monday launch of 21 Tranche 1 Transport Layer A satellites for the Space Development Agency was scrubbed in the final minute and rescheduled for Tuesday.
A pre-dawn SpaceX Falcon 9 launch carrying cargo to the International Space Station produced a luminous 'jellyfish cloud' visible along the US east coast, caused by sunlight reflecting off crystallized …
SpaceX returned to flight with a Falcon 9 Starlink mission, ending a three-week gap in launches for its satellite internet constellation.
NASA's 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission will carry four biological and physical science investigations to the International Space Station, including lab-grown brain models, a crop disease study, a compact biomarker …
Analysis of the first samples returned from the lunar farside suggests that uneven heating from Earth's gravitational pull drove vast ancient magma flows, explaining why the Moon's near and far …
The Italian Space Agency is hosting two sessions of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems in Matera, bringing together international experts to advance space data standards.
NASA's Perseverance rover has driven 28.1 miles on Mars, surpassing the previous record set by Opportunity and becoming the most traveled vehicle on another planet.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on October 1, 2026, carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut, and a Canadian astronaut to the International Space Station. The crew …
A massive galaxy cluster observed by the Hubble Space Telescope appears as a giant smiley face in the sky, a striking example of gravitational lensing that is helping astronomers study …
A new documentary project traces the long relationship between artistic imagination and space exploration, from Leonardo da Vinci to 2001: A Space Odyssey and the French film Il était une …
