Nearly five decades after launch, Voyager 1 is still moving, further and deeper into space than any human-made object before it. From Earth, it now operates in total isolation—far beyond the orbit of ...

On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride ...

The journey of the 50-year-old NASA’s Voyager 1 was nothing short of surprising, as it remained functional years later and against all odds. A recent discovery found that the probe survived an ...

A space mission led by professors from the University of Iowa launched in California on Wednesday. The “TRACERS Spacecraft” was in development for eight years. The university held a launch party for ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed its communications system. ESA officials commonly refer to ...

By combining observations from two space missions, scientists were able to follow one exceptionally active region on the Sun for months, revealing how its magnetic structure evolved over time. Our sun ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

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From a return to the moon to telescope launches, there's plenty of exciting events to expect from space this year ...

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has requested the Smithsonian Institution conduct an internal investigation for “a potential violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act” tied to his efforts to move a NASA space ...