Imagine building super-smart robots with cameras, tools, and even drills that can travel millions of miles through space to ...

NASA"s beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

NASA is preparing for severe cuts under the White House’s proposed budget for 2026. The budget, released in May, highlights ...

A spacecraft has blasted into space and will travel 1.8 billion miles on a mission that will investigate whether one of Jupiter’s moons could support life. Nasa’s Europa Clipper will now ...

Plavchan is serving as the principal investigator for the $19.5 million Landolt NASA Space Mission. ... in various areas and could even help lead to the discovery of another habitable planet.

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch in May 2025, will rendezvous with 469219 Kamo'oalewa, a quasi-moon of our planet that was discovered in 2016.

Some space missions have revealed how far the human race can go, ... On July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 snapped the first ever images of another planet. During its journey, ...

Together, the three spacecraft will fly behind Earth as it orbits the sun, about 50 million kilometers (31 million miles) from our planet. The agency expects the mission to last four years, with ...

In early September 2024, China announced that it planned to launch a mission to collect and return samples from the surface of Mars in 2028, positioning China to become the first nation returning ...

Space missions spanned the solar system in 2024. Chang’e 6 nabbed moon dirt, Percy found hints of ancient life on Mars and Europa Clipper launched ...