Few things arouse more pride in American history and culture than the Apollo space program, but how much do you actually know about it? We found 20 facts about the Apollo program that are equally ...

The cavernous thermal-vacuum test facility is famous for testing the Apollo spacecraft that traveled to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. The instrument enclosure is designed to protect the ...

The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission is the first to capture on camera this wind flying out from the sun in a twisting, whirling motion. The solar wind particles spiral outward as if caught in a ...

Chun Wang, the crypto entrepreneur who purchased the Fram2 mission from SpaceX in August, announced Friday that the three-to-five-day sojourn — the first human spaceflight to fly directly over ...

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Definition: The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), commonly referred to as Mangalyaan-1, is a space probe launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on November 5, 2013. The indigenously-built ...

Scientists are still unraveling the mysteries behind our torrid star. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter — which makes a relatively close approach to the sun every six months — has captured an ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking a crucial milestone ahead of its ...

The Milky Way-mapper Gaia telescope is being switched off today. The European Space Agency (ESA) said on March 27 that Gaia's control team is working to carefully deactivate the spacecraft. According ...