Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop for three months as it unleashed powerful space weather. By combining views ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent star, ...

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 ...

NASA's IMAP mission and two other space weather probes took flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket today (Sept. 24). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Venus’ extreme atmosphere has long prevented direct observation of its surface. A space probe managed to transmit critical data during its final moments before being destroyed by the planet’s harsh ...

The solar atmosphere, or corona, is far hotter than the Sun's surface, a paradox that has puzzled scientists for decades. Furthermore, the constant outflow of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun, ...

In 2018, very large organic molecules were discovered in ice particles on Saturn's moon Enceladus. It is still unclear whether they indicate the existence of life or were created in some other way. A ...