NASA contributed to this first-of-its-kind mission that may help us understand how our solar system formed.
Japan is preparing to launch the MMX mission, aimed at retrieving samples from Phobos, a Martian moon, to enhance our ...
Phobos and Mars’s other moon, Deimos, are small, respectively about 22km and 12km across, and look like lumpy potatoes. That ...
Japanese space agency JAXA has successfully launched a mission to visit the moons of Mars — and bring a sample back to Earth.
A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian ...
JAXA launches the MMX mission to Phobos today on an H3 rocket, aiming to return 10g of Mars moon material to Earth by 2031.
Japan is launching a spacecraft on a groundbreaking mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of Mars' moons. Scientists ...
Japan's MMX mission, launching October 2026, aims to collect samples from Mars's moon Phobos and return them by 2031. This ...
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 ...
The Japanese MMX mission is preparing to set off for Phobos to collect soil samples and bring them back to Earth for research ...
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 ...