The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
On the 13th day of the Artemis 1 mission, the Orion spacecraft captured Earth slip behind the moon. The footage and has been ...
U.S. export controls on space-related items were last significantly revised in 2014. Since then, the industry has continued to evolve towards a ...
Here's what you need to know about SpaceX's groundbreaking program. Starship is conceived as a commercial workhorse, revolutionizing space travel by lowering the cost of sending payloads into orbit.
For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late 2022, ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. NASA/JPL-Caltech Voyager 1 has been ...
NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.
Orion's selfie with Earth and the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA's Orion spacecraft might have successfully traveled to the Moon and back, but its equipment wasn't fully stable throughout the journey.
The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently practiced a key contingency operation as they continue to prepare for their moon mission: opening the side hatch of their Orion spacecraft. If all goes well ...
The heat shield for NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft was installed in June 2023 at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Cory Huston/NASA NASA says it has determined why its Orion spacecraft returned ...