NASA’s ESCAPADE twin probes are set to launch on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to Mars, studying the planet’s magnetosphere ...
A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...
IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...
Time is running short for scientists hoping to collect data from 3I/Atlas, a massive interstellar object hurtling away from ...
As 3I/Atlas neared its closest point to the sun in its orbit, the internet was abuzz with curiosity about the comet.
In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered the mysterious “Wow! Signal” — a powerful radio burst from deep space at the hydrogen line frequency. Nearly five decades later, scientists believe the newly ...
Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...
SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally ...
A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...
A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space ...