However, after encountering an "issue," the Exploration Company lost contact with its spacecraft a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean.

A new probe in development known as GIRO represents a low-cost step toward unlocking the secrets of exoplanets, all through the invisible pull of gravity.

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini rover.

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander went dark just before it was scheduled to touch down on the moon today (June 5), raising doubts about the venture's success.

China launches Tianwen-2 probe to asteroid 2016 HO3 near Mars to collect samples, aiming for groundbreaking results in space exploration and Earth formation clues.

By analysing data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint venture between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency, the team have shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere ...

Space Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don't know where Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come ...

Soviet spacecraft reentry: When could Cosmos 482 crash on Earth? NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's atmosphere anytime between Wednesday, May 7, and Tuesday, May 13.

We have had only one up-close glimpse at Titan, thanks to the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe, which reached the surface in 2005. That mission revealed fields of rounded boulders as well as ...

It took almost 7 years for Cassini to reach Saturn. Another smaller spacecraft called Huygens hitched a ride with Cassini, and it was dropped off at Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.

The mission involved two separate vehicles: the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens probe, named after 17th-century astronomers Gian Domenico Cassini and Christiaan Huygens.

July 1 marked the 20th anniversary of the orbital insertion of a space probe with instruments powered by plutonium produced at the Savannah River Site. Cassini, a joint mission of NASA, the ...