Pakistan’s ICUBE-Q cubesat aboard China’s Chang’e-6 wins global recognition, marking its moon-orbit entry and scientific ...

The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar ...

ESA is now targeting a mission to study enigmatic Enceladus as part of its Voyage 2050, the agency's long-term plan for space ...

Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System ( CaSSIS) aboard the Trace ...

On Sept. 24, 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, spent 10 months getting to Mars after it launched. It ...

The polar regions of the Sun remain among the least-explored territories in solar physics, yet they play a crucial role in ...

A Japanese spacecraft that once carried over 13,000 Hatsune Miku fan messages and drawings into space has officially ended ...

Fantastical conflicts in outer space were a staple of popular culture in the 1980s. Yet one battle that reached into the ...

This was the first Japanese planetary orbiter to operate beyond Earth orbit. Japan had earlier launched the Nozomi probe to ...

On May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter ("Dawn" in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop a H-IIA Launch ...

Fifteen years after launch, JAXA has said goodbye to the spacecraft, our only working probe around Earth's "sister planet".

Japan’s Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki was launched on May 21, 2010, and started its active mission in 2015 after an initial ...