TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER, Japan — Japanese scientists are preparing for a mission to Mars’ moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth, although a rival ...

Japan's MMX mission will blast off soon to collect Martian moon samples. The spacecraft will orbit Mars for three years and ...

India’s space program had an unlikely beginning: scientists worked from a church while rocket components were transported by ...

Scientists are ­rea­dy­­ing a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system and ...

At the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, scientists are readying a mission to the moons of Mars, where they hope to collect samples that could unlock the origins of the Solar System and life ...

Earth’s neighbor still has secrets that science is trying to figure out, and one of them is potential signs of life.

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Voyager CEO Dylan Taylor predicts humans could live and work on the Moon in the early 2030s as NASA and private companies ...

A new era of spaceflight headlined by Artemis II in April is making rocket launches in the US a matter of routine. Here's ...

Japan's MMX mission will explore Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, to collect samples and study Solar System origins, ...

NASA develops a flexible, fabric-based antenna for its next Mars SkyFall helicopters that will test for frozen water in the ...