Their craft’s mechanical issues led to a stay in space that was 35 times longer than originally scheduled, an eight-day mission that ultimately clocked in at 286 days. Yet both of NASA’s unlikely ...

A conception of NASA's Europa Clipper approaching the ice-covered world, Europa. A NASA probe, the length of a basketball court, is headed to the tantalizing world Europa. "It's perhaps one of the ...

There are only two human spacecraft in interstellar space. And their fuel is dwindling. "The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible, ...

An innovative set of four small spacecraft were launched early Thursday aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia. The mission is designed to evaluate both the performance of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy ...

Artemis II will send a crew of four astronauts on a journey around the moon as the United States prepares to send American astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than five decades. (Derek ...

There are only two human spacecraft in interstellar space. And their fuel is dwindling. Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science ...