On July 3, 1998, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Nozomi spacecraft on a mission to Mars. This ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 first mission to return samples from another planet will touch down on Earth in 2033, according to NASA and European Space Agency officials. The Perseverance rover is currently collecting the ...

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.

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 ...

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. The new year’s missions will expand humanity’s horizons even further.