On March 14, 2016, the European Space Agency's ExoMars spacecraft launched on a mission to search for life on Mars. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The mission consisted of an orbiter called the Trace Gas Orbiter and a lander called Schiaparelli.

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a frozen desert.

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most common stars to help answer one of humanity's most profound questions: Which distant worlds beyond our solar system might be habitable?

WASHINGTON — Defense technology company Anduril and space transportation startup Impulse Space are preparing to demonstrate one of the most complex operations in space: autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations in geosynchronous Earth orbit.

The Nasa mission that left astronauts stuck in space was one of the agency’s worst ever failures, it has said. In 2024, Nasa astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunny Williams conducted the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft,

A routine space mission could turn into a historic ordeal. In May 1991, Sergei Krikalev blasted off for what was meant to be a standard five-month mission to the Mir space station. He was to perform experiments,

A NASA satellite has touched back down on Earth after 14 years in orbit. Van Allen Probe A re-entered on Wednesday, the U.S. Space Force confirmed. NASA said it entered the Pacific Ocean region, marking the end of a mission that began in 2012 to measure Earth’s radiation belts.