The farthest spacecraft from home is back to making long-distance phone calls. Communications have been restored with Voyager 1. (Image credit: NASA) NASA has confirmed that one of its greatest ever missions, Voyager 1, is back in business with communications restored
The Dragonfly rotorcraft will ride a Falcon Heavy into space in July 2028, kicking off a six-year journey to Titan. An illustration of NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft soaring in the skies of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)
NASA is looking to develop a new generation of low-emission commercial aircraft, offering a more efficient and sustainable mode of travel. An artist’s illustration of a future airliner concept designed through NASA’s Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability (AACES) 2050
An artist’s concept of the early stages of the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) outburst, surrounded by a disk of material. Credits: NASA-JPL, Caltech In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU
“The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars.” The Roman Coronagraph is integrated with the Instrument Carrier for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight
The long-duration photographs capture Earth in motion. City lights in northern Mexico streak by in this long-exposure photograph taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station on Oct. 24, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/Don Pettit) The whirling Earth shines
NASA said the visit was done as a precaution. Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, left, NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, second from left, Matthew Dominick, second from right, and Jeanette Epps, right are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the
Power conservation is crucial for interstellar exploring spacecraft, which is 12.8 billion miles from home. An artist’s depiction of a Voyager probe entering interstellar space. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2’s science instruments due to
The Crew-9 launch on Sept. 28 will be SpaceX’s first from its SLC-40 pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket test fires its engines head of the planned Crew-9 astronaut launch for
‘We just did not have enough time to get to the end of that runway.’ NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore, who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing’s Starliner capsule in June 2024, discuss their mission