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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Space agencies have performed a dazzling aerial feat at both Venus and Mars: they’ve dipped an incoming spacecraft into the planets’ atmospheres to slow it down without wasting precious rocket ...

In this diagram, NASA indicates the locations of the two Voyager spacecraft in interstellar space. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration.

A rough diagram of the aneutronic fusion process. RocketStar. View gallery - 3 images ... In 1964, the Soviet Union launched its Zond 2 deep space probe for an anticipated flyby of Mars.