"It was a very emotional thing, the first time in the 60 years that nobody was actually in the mission control office there at JPL." Reading time 2 minutes The wildfires currently burning through ...

The aging infrastructure of the Deep Space Network is operating at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade. The latest news isn't helping. Reading time 3 minutes A massive antenna used to ...

Spacecraft need to send texts, too. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On March 19, one of NASA's Deep Space Network facilities — ...

One would think that this excellent question would be easy to answer: A bucket full of “deep space” would contain essentially nothing — and, well, there you are! Outer space is, after all, the closest ...

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...

I grew up in Central Florida, close enough to the Space Coast that shuttle launches were part of my childhood soundtrack. There's nothing like watching humans strapped to controlled explosions arc ...