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 ...

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 ...

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...

The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESA has inaugurated a powerful new 35-meter deep space antenna at its New Norcia site in Western Australia, marking a major boost to Europe’s ability to communicate with spacecraft exploring the Solar ...

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 ...