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 ...

The targeted collision of a space probe with an asteroid moon can change the orbit of the main asteroid around the sun. The Dart experiment has shown this.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most ...

Nearly five decades after launch, Voyager 1 is still moving, further and deeper into space than any human-made object before it. From Earth, it now operates in total isolation—far beyond the orbit of ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Opinion The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every geek who can remember the 1980s.… The twin robotic spacecraft launched in 1977, the same year as the Apple II, the TRS-80 and the ...