ExoMars Mission

We may be one step closer to cracking the Mars methane mystery.

The Russian-built landing platform for the ExoMars rover now has a name: 'Kazachok.'

Drilling for signs of life on Mars, as two rover missions plan to do soon, is a pretty sound strategy, a new study suggests.

The UK Space Agency has launched a public competition to name the U.K.-built ExoMars rover, which is scheduled to launch toward the Red Planet on a life-hunting mission in 2020.

Europe's upcoming Mars rover features a powerful toaster oven-size lab that will search for signs of life on the Red Planet.

The largest-ever parachute bound for Mars, which will land Europe's ExoMars rover on the surface of the Red Planet in 2021, passed the first in a series of tests in Sweden.

A spacecraft that will sniff for possible signs of life in the Martian atmosphere is nearly ready to start its science work at the Red Planet.

Since NASA's Cassini spacecraft has ended its epic 13-year stint at Saturn, here's a look at some other missions en route to new destinations or slated to launch in the next few years.

The reason Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander failed to touch down safely last fall is that conflicting data confused the craft's onboard computer, according to a newly completed crash investigation.

Mission managers have narrowed the landing-site candidates for the ExoMars 2020 rover down to two finalists, European Space Agency (ESA) officials announced today (March 28).

During its second pass around Mars, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter composed never-before-seen detailed images of the moon Phobos.

From the rocket landings of SpaceX and Blue Origin, to the launch of Mars and asteroid missions, to a NASA probe's arrival at Juno, here are the most important spaceflight stories of the year.

The dramatic end of Europe's Rosetta comet mission was the most-watched Livestream event of 2016, and another space mission cracked the top five.