This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Lunar Trailblazer flight controllers are using NASA's Deep Space Network ... spacecraft's flight path toward the moon. Ideally, future TCMs would put the probe into its planned science orbit ...

Four astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos are teaming up for an ambitious mission aboard the International Space Station ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have ... century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space probes to shut down two instruments to save ...

Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's depiction of the Lucy spacecraft flying past a pair of Trojan asteroids. | Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on Feb. 27 to send a probe to the moon in search of water. But less than a week after launch, NASA lost track of the spacecraft, which ...

Voyager 1 and 2 continue to make history every day, as they transmit data back to Earth while traveling further into deep space ... probes into interstellar monuments to themselves. However, NASA ...

Instruments on Voyagers 1 and 2 are being shut off to keep the probes ... space, farther from Earth than any other human-made objects, their nuclear batteries are depleting — but NASA is taking ...

NASA’s most distant observers are losing steam as the toll of spending nearly five decades in space adds up. Scientists have announced that they will turn off one additional instrument on each ...