A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on a quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.

A false-color image of the moon’s Orientale Basin, one of four nonpolar crewed exploration sites recommended by an authoritative new report. The biggest "land rush" of the 21st century is underway—but ...

Japan launched a space mission this Tuesday with the ambitious goal of exploring the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, and ...

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 ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has shattered a historic space exploration record, traveling farther across another world than any ...

Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve ...

Transforming Mars into a more Earth-like world could irreversibly destroy scientific evidence about the planet's history and ...

A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples. Five of the world's space agencies joined forces for the ...

From autonomous vehicles navigating roads without a driver to experimental batteries designed to use carbon dioxide in the ...