After nearly a decade in orbit, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has, for the first time, directly observed the process that ...

Tokyo-based company ispace aims to land its "Resilience" spacecraft in the moon's Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") region on ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

Spacecraft burn tons of fuel and leave behind debris—but a clever technique called aerobraking could fix both problems.

After back-to-back explosions, SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship again on Tuesday evening in hopes of making it ...

The booster came apart and the company lost control of the spacecraft in its latest flight test.

Elon Musk has made no secret of his desire to send humans to Mars, and he wants SpaceX's Starship spacecraft to be the ...

On May 7, 2025, the lander achieved a critical milestone by entering lunar orbit, following a main thruster burn lasting ...

Two days after the latest in a string of test-flight setbacks for his big new Mars spacecraft, Starship, Elon Musk said on ...

Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into ...

In 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a smooth landing on Mars, completing a nine-month, 422 million-mile journey, setting ...