The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

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 ...

Venus’ extreme atmosphere has long prevented direct observation of its surface. A space probe managed to transmit critical ...

By combining observations from two space missions, scientists were able to follow one exceptionally active region on the Sun ...

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 ...

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has requested the Smithsonian Institution conduct an internal investigation for “a potential violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act” tied to his efforts to move a NASA space ...