4.5 billion-year-old samples taken to lab for careful examination after years-long journey

Country joins the US, Soviet Union and China in achievement as it seeks to cement its growing space prowess, days after Russian lunar failure

Luna-25 craft -- first Russian vehicle to attempt Moon landing since 1976 -- was meant to touch down Monday in race with Indian project

Funded by a crypto mogul, the Israel-born Harvard professor says a meteor that exploded off the coast of Papua New Guinea may be the first interstellar object found by humanity

JUICE mission will seek to analyze liquid detected beneath ice of Ganymede, including instrument managed by scientists from Weizmann Institute to look for aberrations in tides

It will take nearly five months for the lander and its experiments to reach the moon; with a science satellite already around Mars, Abu Dhabi wants to expand its exploration

Epsilon-6 rocket carrying 8 satellites destroyed amid fears it could pose a risk if it fell to earth after developing an anomaly; incident Japan's first failed launch since 2003

Tuesday's planned launch of unmanned spacecraft canceled over 'hurricane strength' winds due to hit Florida early next week; previous 2 launches terminated due to fuel leaks

Kingdom seeks to accomplish goal by 2023; part of 'Vision 2030' initiative to overhaul economy, reduce oil dependency and further integrate women into workforce

If successful, the countries would join US, Russia and China as nations that have put spacecraft on moon; Abu Dhabi working toward goal of building human colony on Mars by 2117