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 ...

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

In June 2011, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft reached a dead end as it approached about 500 million miles away from the sun, near Jupiter’s orbit where the solar-powered craft ...

In late 2026, NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft will reach an impressive milestone. The probe is set to become the first spacecraft to reach a distance of one light day from our planet. Voyager 1 is ...

The year 2026 holds great promise for humanity, which will be on the cusp of this great transitional year. The driving force ...

A problem with the Mars Antenna, a giant NASA radio dish in California, has disrupted the Deep Space Network's spacecraft communication efforts, as well as asteroid studies, since Sept. 16, 2025.

China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has imaged the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during its close pass by the Red Planet, aiding global efforts to study the rare interstellar interloper. 3I/ATLAS is only the ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...