NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

Chinese scientists revealed their first comprehensive plan for the near-Earth asteroid defense system at a space exploration ...

Chinese scientists revealed their first comprehensive plan for the near-Earth asteroid defence system at a space exploration ...

Could a spaceship actually travel to Saturn during the time it takes to earn a master’s degree? Scientists at the Princeton ...

On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what is next in deep ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

Named 3I/ATLAS, the comet is only the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system, and it's the largest and ...

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...

A newly designed rank insignia in Washington, D.C. on May 15, 2020. Far out in geosynchronous orbit, a Russian satellite moves through deep space. Cosmos 2553, nicknamed “Sput-nuke,” is designed to ...