Voyager 1 spacecraft is still alive and sending signals to Earth
NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft, launched in the 1970s, have passed beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, making them the most distant man-made objects to exist in the…
Astronauts take major step toward Starliner’s first crewed flight
The official crew portrait for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Left is Suni Williams, who will serve as the pilot, and to the right is Barry “Butch” Wilmore, spacecraft commander.…
NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense After Months of Transmitting Gibberish
The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data for the first time in more than five months, giving hope for the 46-year-old mission to finally be able to resume its normal…
NASA video maps all 72 flights taken by Mars Ingenuity helicopter
NASA has shared a video (above) that maps all of the flights taken on Mars by its trailblazing Ingenuity helicopter. Ingenuity became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight…
NASA Spacecraft Sees a Lava Lake With Islands on Jupiter’s Moon Io
It could be worse. At least these Escherichia coli bacteria don’t have fangs.Illustration: Kateryna Kon (Shutterstock) Eat your heart out, A24: Some real-life bacterial germs are literally hungry for our…
A Legendary Rocket’s Final Flight and More Top Space Images of the Week
The final flight of ULA’s Delta IV Heavy blasting off on April 9, 2024.Photo: ULA It’s been a wild and wacky last few weeks in space, not to mention awe-inspiring,…
Watch how NASA plans to land a car-sized drone on Titan
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben A decision by NASA this week paved the way for the Dragonfly drone mission to continue to completion. The aim is to land the car-sized drone…
NASA green-lights mission to send car-sized drone to Saturn moon
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben NASA’s Mars helicopter mission is now well and truly over, but following in its footsteps is an even more complex flying machine that’s heading for Saturn’s…
This Advanced Quake Detector Will Land on the Moon With Artemis Astronauts
NASA is building a compact seismometer for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission to the Moon, hoping to learn more about the internal structure of the dusty satellite from its lunar…
Junk from the ISS fell on a house in the U.S., NASA confirms
A regular stanchion (left) and the one recovered from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount International Space Station batteries on a cargo pallet. The recovered stanchion survived reentry…