Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories. The Phobos-Grunt mission, Russia’s endeavor to explore Mars' moon ...

Thanks to JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and its sample-return capabilities, we're on the cusp of receiving our first sample from the Martian system—not from Mars itself, but from its ...

AM on October 20, 2026. Japan's H3 rocket is scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Japan Phobos mission 2026: JAXA will launch its MMX spacecraft on Oct. 19, carrying instruments to collect Phobos regolith that contains Martian surface ejecta -- humanity's only confirmed near-term ...

An expert on Mars has given a lecture in central Japan to raise awareness of a Japanese project to explore one of the red ...

This is a full-scale mockup of Russia's Phobos-Grunt. The spacecraft will collect samples of soil on Mar's moon Phobos and to bring the samples back to Earth for detailed study. This image shows ...

A massive crater on Mars’ moon Phobos may hide a dense region of compressed material that could reveal whether the moon is a captured asteroid or debris from an ancient impact on Mars. Japan’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Propulsion Module (left) and Exploration and Return Modules (right), which together make up Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration ...

What you will learn in this article What JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) probe is going to do The October 20 launch date and time, and how to watch the live stream Why it is called a 'world ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Thursday that it will launch an H3 rocket carrying a Mars moon exploration spacecraft on Oct. 20. The No. 10 H3 rocket is scheduled to blast off f ...

The origins of Phobos and Deimos remain at the forefront of planetary science, with two principal scenarios under active debate: capture of primitive asteroids into Martian orbit and in situ formation ...