Only two spacecraft have ever truly escaped the solar system, slipping beyond the Sun’s protective bubble into interstellar space. Their measurements are now reshaping how I understand the heliosphere ...

Smile! A spacecraft just caught you — and everyone else on our planet — on camera while snapping a selfie. Our planet shines in the distance roughly 26.5 million miles (43 million km) away from ...

The U.S. civilian space agency is once again on the threshold of sending astronauts into deep space, this time under the Artemis program, which comprises international partners and a diverse ...

As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an ...

The Artemis II crew will rely on the Deep Space Network for communication and navigation during their mission, which could launch as early as February. Credit: NASA / Mark Sowa On the 18th day of the ...

NASA is leveraging expertise, capabilities, and partnerships across its centers to make Artemis campaign and deep space ...