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JAXA Plans To Bring Back Pristine Early Solar System Samples From A Comet

Japan’s space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had historic successes with both Hayabusa and Hayabusa2, and...

JAXA plans to bring back pristine early solar system samples from a comet

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had historic successes with both Hayabusa and Hayabusa2, and...

Big Moon mission, little space rocks

The Artemis II launch, and meteorites on Earth and the Moon.

Dual spacecraft capture both hemispheres of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at once

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA's Europa Clipper made unique obs...

The Asteroid Hunter

Somewhere out there, hurtling through space in the darkness, is an asteroid with our name on it. We just don't know which one yet. NASA's answer to that uncomfortable truth is NEO...

Asteroid Apophis will skim past Earth in 2029, and a new joint mission plans to watch every change

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to deepen collaboration in planetary defense, alongside a...

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts may catch a comet—if it can survive the sun

Amid a journey of celestial spectacles, the Artemis II astronauts may spot a comet—if it survives a dash past the sun

Both Hemispheres of 3I/ATLAS Observed Simultaneously by JUICE and Europa Clipper

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper made unique obs...

'This is going to be what makes the Earth secure.' How one California company plans to protect us from dangerous asteroi...

Exploration Labs has proposed the first commercial deep space ride share mission, known as Apophis EX, to rendezvous with potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis.

ESA Selects Two New Scout-Class Missions

When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does it give us an overall holistic view of the planet below, but satellite-based im...

Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle

Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Traveling Salesperson problem, but a new mathematical approach has succeeded in so...

Asteroid mission captures rarely seen perspective of Mars during close flyby

The Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, is heading for Asteroid 16 Psyche in the outer part of the main asteroid belt, but just managed a strategic flyby of Mars.

Triumph and turmoil

The successful conclusion to Artemis II; the threat of termination to many other missions.

Asteroid mission captures rarely seen perspective of Mars during close flyby

The Psyche mission, launched in October 2023, is heading for Asteroid 16 Psyche in the outer part of the main asteroid belt, but just managed a strategic flyby of Mars.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is flying to a metal asteroid. So, why did it just visit Mars?

NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system.

Comet R3 PanSTARRS at Perihelion

We’re one comet down, and one to go for spring season 2026. We recently wrote about prospects for sungrazer C/2026 A1 MAPS and comet C/2025 R3 Pan-STARRS in April 2026. While the b...

Could a solar storm derail the Artemis II mission?

Every mission to deep space is fraught with danger. A hardware failure during launch, an equipment malfunction far from Earth, or a small space rock hitting the vehicle are all sce...

Japan's audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad

The complex MMX mission aims to shed light on the origins of Mars' two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, bringing Phobos material back to Earth in 2031.

Big impacts

New asteroid discoveries, big changes at NASA, and breathtaking views of Saturn.

SMILE: European Space Weather Mission Launches

An innovative new mission will probe the mystery of how the Earth’s magnetosphere interacts with the solar wind. The post SMILE: European Space Weather Mission Launches appeared fi...

Days after Artemis II, scientists warn of deep cuts to NASA missions

The scientists behind threatened missions speak out.

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What do scientists hope to learn from NASA's historic Artemis 2 moon flyby?

Here's what's on the experiment roster for the Artemis 2 moon mission.

Artemis II Has Successfully Launched and Is Heading for the Moon — What Comes Next for the Mission?

With Artemis II well underway, learn what comes next for this historic mission.