Nearly five decades after launch, Voyager 1 is still moving, further and deeper into space than any human-made object before it. From Earth, it now operates in total isolation—far beyond the orbit of ...

An artist's concept shows Voyager 1 entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. - NASA/JPL-Caltech Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a ...

From a return of humans to lunar orbit, to Japan's first crack at Mars, advanced space travel and exploration is set to ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

Venus’ extreme atmosphere has long prevented direct observation of its surface. A space probe managed to transmit critical data during its final moments before being destroyed by the planet’s harsh ...