NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system, entering interstellar space in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The pair were originally intended to study the ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are currently looking for discrepancies in the message in order to find out why the spacecraft—the farthest piece of human technology from Earth ...

Three thousand miles off the Eastern coast of New Zealand and more than 2 miles deep, it's the one place farthest from any land mass on Earth. The perfect spot to land giant chunks of spacecraft ...

or even distant spacecraft like Voyager 1. Interestingly, the new maser can boost signals by 1000x. This diamond has a unique spin system that allows it to amplify weak signals at room temperature.

the Huygens probe descended by parachute for some 2.5 hours before surviving its landing. The European Space Agency craft remains humans’ farthest footfall, some 750 million miles away from Earth.

The message from SLIM came days after NASA restored contact with Voyager 1, the farthest space probe from earth, which had been sending garbled data back to earth for months. An U.S. lunar probe ...

Humanity’s farthest-flung emissary is speaking clearly again after a tense five months of confusing communications. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar space—got ...