NASA is quietly reshaping how we will understand the Moon, selecting a trio of new Artemis science payloads that target its ...

In late 2023, NASA's Voyager 1—the most distant human-made object—fell eerily silent. For five months, the spacecraft, now more than 15 billion miles from Earth, sent only garbled signals home. The ...

Rise and shine, Rosetta! A European space probe dubbed Rosetta woke up Monday from a deep sleep to prepare for an unprecedented comet-chasing spaceflight — an event that will cap its decade-long trek ...

The images sent home from Tianwen 2 show the spacecraft is operating well as it heads out into deep space When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an ...

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 ...

The launch of the Voyager 1 probe with a Titan III/Centaur rocket on September 5, 1977 from the Kennedy Space Center Launch ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...

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 ...