The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat ...

In addition to cameras, robotic probes always carry an array of scientific instruments that ... Pioneers 10 and 11, GOES, Europa Clipper, Cassini, and Juno — to name just a few — have carried ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is one of the most advanced ... With a complex suite of scientific instruments, it will analyze Europa’s magnetic field, sample its thin atmosphere, and even ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures ...

Voyager 1's own plasma science instrument stopped working correctly in 1980 and was turned off in 2007 to preserve power. This NASA graphic shows the locations of NASA's Voyager spacecraft in ...

Space is *** very big place for real, and one of the biggest goals of humanity over the course of the last few decades is the concept of us sending things out into the Earth's orbit or into the ...

A day after landing on the moon, the robotic Athena spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines of Houston is dead. In an update on its website on Friday, the company confirmed that Athena had tipped ...

Flight controllers did manage to rotate the drill to prove it worked, and a companion science instrument collected some data, NASA said. Several other mission objectives were accelerated ...

NASA is shutting down a science instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power and sustain the 47-year-old spacecraft’s mission in deep space. Launched in 1977, both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were tasked ...