China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

A diagram showing both of NASA's Voyager probes in interstellar space as of November 2018. NASA/JPL-Caltech In 300 years, Voyager 1 could see the Oort Cloud, and in 296,000 years, Voyager 2 could ...

The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion ...

Galilean moons diagram. Jupiter. 0. JUPITER DIAMETERS. Io. Europa. 5. Ganymede. 10. ... The discovery by NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe in 1979 of active volcanoes on the nearby moon Io indicated ...

Space: Probe for Comet Fluff. 4 minute read. TIME. November 8, 1963 12:00 AM GMT-5. To space-conscious laymen, the very word meteoroid is heavy with menace.

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster ...

Scientists sent the Parker Solar Probe into the sun’s outer atmosphere — known as the corona — in a bid to gather data that could lead to more accurate predictions of space weather events ...

The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between the stars). Voyager 2 continues to operate normally, NASA reports.

In space, aerobraking can change the orbit of a spacecraft while minimizing the use of its propulsion system and fuel. Spacecraft that orbit around Earth do so in two types of orbits : circular ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system. A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 ...