The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico transmitted the most powerful known interstellar message in 1974. The facility's ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

NASA's farthest spacecraft, Voyager 1, is running low on power but carries on its journey through interstellar space. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth ...

Carl Sagan had a gift for translating complex scientific ideas into stories that sparked wonder and inspired generations, ...

Mars once boasted abundant water, warmer temperatures, and a thicker atmosphere, offering a potentially habitable ecosystem ...

A meteor shower known for blazing fireballs is set to peak on Monday night into early Tuesday and could present a dazzling display for patient sky-gazers.

This eye-catching duo will quickly descend as the sky darkens, finally setting just over 1.5 hours after sunset ... well to the east of Venus. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Venus pairs with a slim crescent Moon and plays a role in NASA’s latest solar probe mission. Don’t miss the lunar occultation of Spica for early risers in eastern North America. In the early morning ...

NASA has announced that it has re-established contact with the Voyager 1 spacecraft after a brief, nerve-wracking period of radio silence. The spacecraft recently switched off one of its two radio ...

Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently exploring where nothing from Earth has ever flown before. Launched in 1977, it's now on a mission to go as far away from the solar system as possible ...

NASA has re-established contact with 47-year-old Voyager 1 after years of silence. The spacecraft's fault protection system shut down its radio transmitter, sparking investigations into the cause.