We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year. But there were a number of failures as well, some of ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped ...

The creator of the futuristic Orion capsule, the only spacecraft capable of speeding aeronauts to the Moon, is set to begin ...

On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 ...

This could be the end of the orbiter that studies the Red Planet’s atmosphere and relays communications between NASA and its ...

Recent analysis of Cassini spacecraft data shows Saturn’s moon Titan likely lacks a global subsurface ocean, revealing a high ...

Human spaceflight is once again confronting a familiar problem: how to protect astronauts during long missions far beyond ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

Incredible but true! A Harvard astrophysicist puts forward a startling hypothesis: comet 3I/ATLAS could be an alien ...

On Dec. 25, 2004, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft dropped a lander named Huygens at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Huygens was a ...

After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...

For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the ...