The Soviets, however, did enjoy a number of successes before it, including the first spacecraft that successfully orbited our Moon. Following a string of achievements with their Luna missions ...

The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive plutonium. Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...

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After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft ...

To avoid causing any problems for the new kids on the block, the ESA's team on the ground ordered Gaia's engines to give a final push on Thursday that will take the spacecraft into a distant orbit ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that NASA's Voyager 2 probe began decades ago.

The EU’s leading cybersecurity agency has published a detailed new report outlining the threat landscape and recommended steps to mitigate the most acute risks in the space sector. ENISA argued in its ...

Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest approach and fastest human-made object.

Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the Sun. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—The two-time record-setting Parker Solar Probe confirmed the health of its operating systems and ...

NASA loves nothing more than sending spacecraft out in to the unknown void of space in the hope of learning something new and exciting about the universe. Not all projects last forever ...

The spacecraft will reach speeds of 430,000 mph, making it the fastest human-made object. Scientists hope the mission will help explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface.