probes

Researchers with the University at Buffalo are working on a conceptual design that would see a morphing aircraft…

It’s been a while since we last heard from the Parker Solar Probe, the NASA spacecraft voted most likely to end up…

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft surprised scientists when it revealed that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede generated its own…

Last year, Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner hatched an ambitious plan to send a tiny probe to the…

1999 JU3: It doesn't sound like a very noteworthy name. It's just one of more than 5,000 Apollo-class asteroids. But…

NASA is currently accepting ideas for a mission to Europa — the moon voted most likely to harbour alien life. But…

It looks like it's finally going to happen, an actual mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa — one of the the solar…

SETI now has the technology to go snooping for extraterrestrials in our own backyard. No, not as close as little…

Only a few science fiction fans and futurists had heard of Von Neumann probes before that day in November when the…

The worst part of going to the doctor's is being poked and prodded with any number of terrifying probes and needles,…

Space buffs take note: A science project called MAPPER is seeking citizen researchers to help aide in the search for…

History, made: The unmanned Dawn spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around Vesta, a massive asteroid some 117…

Designer Chris Abbas collected a ton of Cassini photography from the Saturn mission and made this video. It is at…

Meet OSIRIS-REx, the NASA probe with the kingly name, which will be the first craft to visit an asteroid and bring…

Until today, NASA was only able to directly view the Earth-facing side of the Sun. We could see solar storms as they…

It's official: NASA and the ESA will be sending specialized probes to the Jupiter moon Europa to further investigate…

In November, the Cassini probe got very, very close to Hyperion, one of Saturns many moons. These 61 frames…

On Friday, sometime around 1100 GMT, China sent a probe to the moon.

Fact: Space is a freak show. But that link goes to a post about deep space, beyond our solar system. Thanks to the…

I kind of dig space—especially the unexplained—so today I'm in a bit of a tizzy. Pioneer 10, you see—which left our…