Communication attempts ongoing for stricken spacecraft NASA is setting up an anomaly review board to look into the fate of its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, which was last ...

In 2018, very large organic molecules were discovered in ice particles on Saturn's moon Enceladus. It is still unclear whether they indicate the existence of life or were created in some other way. A ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

Voyager 1’s sudden return to coherent communication has turned a near-elegy for the spacecraft into a fresh scientific mystery, as engineers confront strange gaps and glitches in the data streaming ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed its communications system. ESA officials commonly refer to ...

SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket containing a trio of probes for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in ...

When NASA launched the Pioneer probes, they were met with an intriguing mystery. At around 20 astronomical units, both ...

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 ...

Sept. 24 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a trio of spacecraft Wednesday morning, each meant to study the sun and space weather, and their affects on Earth. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy ...

new video loaded: Europe makes space history as Philae probe lands on comet The European Space Agency (ESA) landed a probe on a comet on Wednesday, a first in space exploration and the climax of a ...