SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally ...

NASA and the U.S. Space Force have been tracking a one in 4,200 chance that remnants from spacecraft can survive re-entry and harm someone on Earth. (NASA.gov photo) ...

On its record-breaking pass by the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the sun's atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the sun than ...

The trio of space probes will detect and measure gravitational waves originating from places such as smaller stellar mass black holes orbiting supermassive black holes. By studying the data the probes ...

A spacecraft could plunge into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday. While most of the probe will likely burn up during reentry, a few components are expected to survive.

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential "groundbreaking" results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kosmos 482 was intended as a successor to Soviet probe's like Venera 4, seen above. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth — but only if the scientists operating them act ...

NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has made valuable observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which in July became the ...