Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere. This was a Russian probe designed to study the atmosphere ...

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 ...

A Soviet Venera-4 model, similar to the lost Kosmos 482 landing capsule, is on display at a museum. Credit: ESA / Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics Before a Soviet-era spacecraft intended for Venus ...

Greece-based entrepreneur has a unique idea for moon-bound deliveries: using a giant net to catch packages launched from ...

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

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

When Frank Sinatra popularized “Fly Me to the Moon,” he was probably envisioning a trip up on NASA’s Apollo Lunar Module, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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