Mars was once an Earth-like world. When life emerged on our watery planet sometime between 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, Mars was also home to lakes of liquid water and possibly flowing rivers. Combined ...

For the first time in over a year, NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a sample on Mars. On Oct. 24, the rover drilled a ...

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Chandrayaan-3 was a Moon lander and rover mission by India’s space agency. The spacecraft launched on July 14, 2023 and touched down in the Moon’s south polar region on August 23, 2023. The ...

Chandrayaan-1 was India’s first mission to another world. The orbiter discovered water on the Moon. Technologies developed for Chandrayaan-1 helped kickstart India's planetary science program. On ...

Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission aims to bring back the first-ever samples from Phobos, a moon of Mars, to explore what the Solar System was like shortly before life arose on Earth. MMX ...

Below is a list of selected NASA science missions facing severe budget cuts or termination in the upcoming fiscal year. These proposals are from the White House and are not supported by Congress, ...

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The first mission to land on a moon of Mars could launch as soon as Oct. 19, carrying with it a sample collection instrument that The Planetary ...

This is your one-stop space exploration and astronomy calendar for 2026: from mission launches and space exploration milestones to celestial events and exciting changes in our Solar System, it’s all ...

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Should I be worried about asteroids hitting Earth? You shouldn’t lose sleep over it. Damaging asteroids do not hit Earth very often. But you should care about it, because dangerous asteroids have ...