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 ...

KU astronomy professor Elisabeth Mills' proposed space probe, PRIMA, has been chosen by NASA for funding and further investigation. A space probe concept with a KU team member has moved on to the next ...

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 space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully ...

Every once in awhile, NASA publishes a photo of something in space taken by one of their probes. But how exactly do probes in ...

The small rocket and capsule have been flying since April 2015 and have combined to make 38 launches, all but one of which ...

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 ...

Launching soon on one of the next cargo missions to the International Space Station is the Multi-Needle Langmuir Probe that will measure the “weather” in the upper atmosphere. The experiment is part ...

NASA has shared the first photos taken of China's Chang'e-6 space probe captured on the far side of the moon. The images of China's sample return spacecraft were captured by NASA's Lunar ...

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 ...

There’s more bad news for NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles from ...