Scientists explain how robotic missions are helping prepare for human travel to the moon and Mars, focusing on radiation, water mapping, lunar dust, and space weather planning ...

The 26-foot-tall (8-meter-tall) cargo lander is expected to embark on its first flight during the first quarter of 2026, ...

With missions stretching from the Moon to Mercury and Mars, 2026 will mark the shift from experimental demonstrations to ...

Iran has announced that it successfully placed three domestically built satellites into orbit using a Russian Soyuz rocket, a ...

The Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon explain the experiments conducted ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Carl Sagan once said, “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” These words ...

India’s space journey has evolved beyond a string of spectacular missions and is a source of daily inspiration ...

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Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...