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

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 ...

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 ...

Research shows Jupiter’s strong gravitational pull may have protected Earth by keeping its orbit steady and preventing it from drifting toward the Sun.

There is no evidence to support the idea that this interstellar object is anything but a comet, but let's double-check.