Lost spacecraft: SpaceX said Thursday that its Starship spacecraft — which was meant to lap Earth and splash down in the Indian Ocean — exploded not long after its 7th test flight took off ...

The Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) is a significant technological initiative by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop and demonstrate in-space docking technology. This ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

ISRO—India’s space agency—successfully completed the docking of two spacecraft in orbit, a major accomplishment that makes the agency just the fourth to manage the feat. The dramatic docking ...

Mercury’s stark landscape received another visitor on January 8, 2025. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft, on its sixth flyby of the planet, swept just a few hundred miles above the north pole, ...

Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) are shedding new light on Mercury with the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft executed its sixth and final gravity-assist ...

These imagers are attached to the spacecraft module, which will separate from the mission's dual probes during the final approach. That will leave the ESA's Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury ...

Japan has launched LignoSat, the world’s first wooden satellite, into orbit, marking a step toward sustainable space technology. Developed by JAXA, the satellite is crafted from honoki magnolia ...

The High Energy Astrophysics Division's main focus is on X-ray astronomy via observations of high-energy sources with instruments aboard satellites, rockets, balloons, and the Space Shuttle. The ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission by the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Scientists built the spacecraft in the UK, and it launched in October 2018. This flyby marked the final ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launched October 20, 2018, it’s actually two ...