The satellite is fully functional, providing valuable data, and may soon be burned up in our atmosphere out out of choice.

Taylor Swift's astronomical success is the result of clear and repeatable patterns of behavior, as a new book shows.

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the moon on July 31. Despite extensive efforts, mission operators were unable ...

Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment NASA has called it quits on attempts to contact its Lunar Trailblazer probe, notching up a failure in its low-cost, high-risk science program.

A Harvard astrophysicist has suggested that a newly discovered comet passing through our solar system might be an alien spacecraft in disguise. The claim by Professor Avi Loeb has split opinion in the ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon ended in failure after contact with was lost a day after the launch in February ...

Can you teach an old Mars rover new tricks? NASA says the answer is a resounding “yes.” Following its landing on Mars 13 ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

Venus-Jupiter Conjunction and Meteor Mojo Venus and Jupiter shine together in a rare, close morning conjunction this August.