An ambitious Mars mission launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Monday afternoon. Led by the Japan Aerospace ...
Phobos and Mars’s other moon, Deimos, are small, respectively about 22km and 12km across, and look like lumpy potatoes. That ...
Japan is preparing to launch the MMX mission, aimed at retrieving samples from Phobos, a Martian moon, to enhance our ...
A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian ...
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 ...
Japanese space agency JAXA has successfully launched a mission to visit the moons of Mars — and bring a sample back to Earth.
Japan is launching a spacecraft on a groundbreaking mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of Mars' moons. Scientists ...
Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the solar ...
JAXA launches the MMX mission to Phobos today on an H3 rocket, aiming to return 10g of Mars moon material to Earth by 2031.
TOKYO — Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world’s first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars. Scientists hope the mission, which ...
October 19, 2026 8:12 pm ET | The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXAm successfully launch the Martian Moons eXploration mission, MMX, to Mars on October 19, 2026 EDT (October 20, 2026 in Japan).