The European Space Agency recently inaugurated the New Norcia 3, a 115-foot deep-space antenna located in Western Australia.

Venus’ extreme atmosphere has long prevented direct observation of its surface. A space probe managed to transmit critical ...

"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

Kosmos 482 was intended as a successor to Soviet probe's like Venera 4, seen above. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully ...

By combining observations from two space missions, scientists were able to follow one exceptionally active region on the Sun ...

KU astronomy professor Elisabeth Mills' proposed space probe, PRIMA, has been chosen by NASA for funding and further investigation. A space probe concept with a KU team member has moved on to the next ...

Every once in awhile, NASA publishes a photo of something in space taken by one of their probes. But how exactly do probes in ...

KANSAS (KSNT) – A Soviet space probe built to withstand Venus’ harsh atmosphere will crash into Earth at an unknown location sometime next week. 27 News spoke to NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador ...

The trio of space probes will detect and measure gravitational waves originating from places such as smaller stellar mass black holes orbiting supermassive black holes. By studying the data the probes ...

There’s more bad news for NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles from ...

Researchers able to track for the first time how a particularly active region of the sun develops over three solar ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth — but only if the scientists operating them act ...