The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

A new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to ...

The Soviet Union’s pioneering space missions were among the first to penetrate the thick, toxic clouds of Venus and reveal ...

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the ...

NASA's Surveyor 1 landed on the lunar surface to become the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. Surveyor 1 took ...

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...

China has released the first image from its Tianwen 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft is on a mission to collect samples from a ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On June 2, 1966, Surveyor 1 made history as the first American spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. The robotic probe touched down in Oceanus Procellarum—Latin ...

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts ...

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth ...

Nature explores the massive costs and challenges of sending astronauts to the red planet. US President Donald Trump last week ...