Saturday's celestial concert salutes ESA's 50th anniversary and 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Johann Strauss II's popular orchestral piece "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" has been inextricably linked to space since it was used in the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The waltz played as ...

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 ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos," the ...

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 ...

The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo‘oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid. Tianwen-2’s mission is to land on the surface of ...