Japanese space agency JAXA has successfully launched a mission to visit the moons of Mars — and bring a sample back to Earth.

There are, by various estimates, several trillion planets within what is known as the Local Group of galaxies—our closest galaxy neighbors, including our own Milky Way. Many of these planets are ...

London, Jun 22 (PTI) A deep-space mission to discover habitable Earth-sized planets in other solar systems and detect extra-terrestrial life they may host has been given the go-ahead by the European ...