German logistics company DHL said Monday a cargo aircraft operated by its partner SwiftAir had made an "emergency landing" in Lithuania, where local authorities reported one person killed in a crash.

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Chang'e-6's complex mission began on May 3 and is due to last 53-days. What are the probe's next steps? After landing, the probe will attempt to scoop up lunar soil and rocks from the hardly ...

Japan’s space agency released on Jan. 25 the first photo of its lunar probe making a successful moon landing. The remarkable photo was snapped by LEV-2, one of the two robots released from the ...

Landing missions are especially tricky due to ... Despite surviving the long trip the Mars — a major feat in itself— the probe crashed into the Martian surface somewhere west of the Hellas ...

ISAS is an arm of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). “The probe made a successful soft landing on the moon. It has begun transmitting signals back to Earth and is generally ...

The unmanned probe Rosetta will release the 100-kilogram ... confirmation of a successful landing won't arrive until about 1603 GMT (11:03 a.m. EST). Scientists hope the mission will help them ...

The Chandrayaan-3 automatic probe has become the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole but that area is not as important as the probe’s touchdown on the lunar ...