NASA contributed to this first-of-its-kind mission that may help us understand how our solar system formed.

A Japanese spacecraft is rocketing toward Mars on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back ...

A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.

On October 20th its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission lifted off from Tanegashima, an island in southern Japan. The ...

A Japanese-led mission is launching to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock ...

Here's why it's grabbing a sample from moon Phobos.

Japan launches a ground-breaking mission to the Mars moon Phobos today, and you can watch live. The JAXA (Japan Aerospace ...

Lift-off: the Martian Moons eXploration mission will aim to collect 10g of material from Phobos (courtesy: JAXA) Japan has ...

Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, ...

The MMX mission launches October 19 to Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos. It will collect a sample from Phobos and return it to ...

Japan’s MMX mission will be the first to the moons of Mars and it aims to bring back precious rock samples — perhaps even ...

NASA is part of a Japan-led mission known as MMX that in the coming days could send an uncrewed spacecraft toward Mars to ...