Juno does not fall into those protected categories, and was also zeroed-out on the President's fiscal year 2026 budget ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage deployed NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), Carruthers Geocorona ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting ...

NASA’s Juno probe missed a rare chance to chase interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, as politics and silence cloud mission ...

Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency said in a news release. The exoplanet, known as TRAPPIST-1 e, orbits ...

Voyager 1 is going to achieve another monumental feat in a few weeks -- it will be the first spacecraft to travel a light day ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

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 ...