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

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

Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth, a daring international project that could yield new ...

Companies in the space industry set up their displays for the Space Symposium at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs on Saturday, April 11, 2026. (The Gazette, Michael G. Seamans) When it landed on Mars ...

The 10th H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 4.41 am local time, carrying the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) probe developed by the Japan Aerospace ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft will travel all the way to the Mars system and return. But first, it has to get through the launch ...

Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will study Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos, deploy a rover, and attempt the first-ever sample return from Phobos. Here's how the five-year mission will ...

A Japanese-led mission has launched to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock more of the red planet’s secrets.

For several years now the biggest space agencies in the Western world have been struggling to get going the Mars Sample Return mission, perhaps the most ambitious robotic space mission ever undertaken ...