A NASA spacecraft launched seven years ago is set to touch down in the Utah desert on Sunday carrying the largest-ever sample from an asteroid. Osiris-REx collected rocks and debris from the surface ...

There are only two human spacecraft in interstellar space. And their fuel is dwindling. "The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible, ...

A conception of NASA's Europa Clipper approaching the ice-covered world, Europa. A NASA probe, the length of a basketball court, is headed to the tantalizing world Europa. "It's perhaps one of the ...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar ...

One of NASA’s latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity’s message out to the cosmos — and this one’s searching for life outside of our pale blue dot. As Gizmodo reports, ...

NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk's SpaceX guide the International Space Station's destruction later this decade, the agency announced Wednesday. The National Aeronautics and Space ...

Behold the volcano-blanketed moon, Io. After swooping by Jupiter's tortured moon on Feb. 3, NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back some of the closest-ever images of this unique world. The agency's deep ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona. The Parker Solar Probe actually flew through the ...

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft is less than two weeks away from wrapping up a 10-month journey to Mars’ orbit, from where it will study the planet’s atmosphere and ...

NASA is planning to deploy SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to extend the Hubble telescope’s lifespan for another two decades, buying the agency more time to figure out how to dispose of space junk. Elon ...

There are only two human spacecraft in interstellar space. And their fuel is dwindling. Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science ...