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 ...

Kosmos 482 was intended as a successor to Soviet probe's like Venera 4, seen above. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully ...

KU astronomy professor Elisabeth Mills' proposed space probe, PRIMA, has been chosen by NASA for funding and further investigation. A space probe concept with a KU team member has moved on to the next ...

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential "groundbreaking" results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang ...

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. However, both space probes ...

The small rocket and capsule have been flying since April 2015 and have combined to make 38 launches, all but one of which were successful, and 36 landings. In its existence, the New Shepard program ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...

There’s more bad news for NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles from ...

The Voyager space probes launched in 1977. Since then they've crossed the Solar System, featured in Star Trek and — best of all — have been the subject of a 13WHAM segment. NASA correspondent Tony ...