2022 was a remarkable year for space exploration, featuring milestones such as capturing the first image of the black hole ...

Japan launched a historic quest to land on Mars’ moon Phobos and return the first-ever soil samples from the Martian system ...

Here's why it's grabbing a sample from moon Phobos.

SPACE DEVELOPMENTQuietly taking off toward an unclimbed peakMartian Moons eXploration (MMX) probe launch successfulOctober 20 ...

Japan has launched the MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket for a five-year mission to study Phobos, collect at least 10 grams of material and return the samples to Earth in 2031.

Caltech graduate students and friends carry out their first rocket firing on Halloween, 1936, in a dry riverbed along which JPL would rise. Their work helped make possible missions such as ...

On a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston last week, President Trump promised American astronauts would establish a permanent presence on the Moon before pushing forward to Mars. “Our ...

In 2019, the curious feline was honored with a bronze statue in France ...