“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Finally, on two plates taken on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30, 1930, he found the right-sized point in the right patch of sky moving the right ... since soared billions of miles into deep space and no other ...

There are also some mysterious dark patches, possibly left ... would love to explore if a mission to Uranus ever gets the green light. Triton is Neptune’s biggest moon, discovered in 1846 ...

An image of Saturn taken on the Cassini-Huygens mission, with its larger moons highlighted. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute ... they revisited the same patches of sky for three ...

Crew-10 pilot Nichole Ayers spearheaded the process of creating the patch on behalf of her crewmates, commander Anne McClain ...

In what might be a first in spaceflight history, the next crew to launch to the International Space Station has adopted a mission patch that began with ideas generated by an AI (artificial ...

While many stories in this new chapter of lunar exploration will be reminiscent of the Apollo missions 50 years ago, others may look quite different. For instance, the European Space Agency is ...

The mission commander said it was "a privilege to call [the] station home." NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission successfully undocked from the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth ...

to fly its first operational Tactically Responsive Space mission. (Firefly Aerospace) The Space Force last week awarded Firefly Aerospace a nearly $22 million contract to launch a mission aimed at ...