The Trump administration is closing a historic NASA science office in the name of efficiency, but critics point out that the ...

With its sweeping tempo and ethereal melody, Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" waltz has become ...

NASA correspondent Tony Rice explains how the Voyager probes have served as a barometer for our knowledge of space.

Voyager 1 will be the guest of honor at what may be the most exclusive concert in history. To mark the 200th birthday of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to broadcast a live performance of the Danube Waltz composed by Johann Strauss II into space on 31 May. The classical piece was used as film music in the sci-fi ...

Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose “Blue Danube” graced Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi opus “2001: A Space ...

Startup Portal Space Systems aims to use mirrors to heat ammonia propellant for high delta-v maneuvers. Credit: Portal Space System If you want to go fast–and far–in space, the consensus is ...

Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) in interstellar space.

The day job, as senior software engineer for the Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer (DISR) on the Huygens space probe that landed on Titan last January, is the second-best job a guy could have ...