The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of ...

Voyager 1, NASA's farthest man-made object, launched in 1977, continues to explore interstellar space, sending back valuable ...

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft embarked on a Grand Tour of the outer solar system, a feat made ...

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

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications as "ice giants?" This is what a recent study accepted for publication in ...

Southwest Research Institute could lose more than $265 million if the cuts go through, including defunding missions already ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Nearly 40 years after its launch, the probe continues to gather information and challenge everything we know about space.

Tianwen 1 has spotted the solar system's latest interstellar intruder from Mars orbit. China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

According to calculations from IFLScience's resident astronomer, Dr Alfredo Carpineti, using data from NASA's Eyes on the ...