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

Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

These days, private businesses are making big moves in space. Two commercial space probes have just set off on a mission to ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA science probes on March 11, 2025 in a spectacular nighttime liftoff from California after multiple delays. Shortly after launch, the rocket deployed both ...

Dodging stormy weather ahead of Hurricane Milton, SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's $398 million Hera probe Monday on a follow-up flight to find out precisely how a moonlet orbiting a small ...

Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar ...

STORY: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS VIDEO AND SCRIPT HAS BEEN REFILED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE PROBE'S LAUNCH, WHICH OCCURRED ON APRIL 29. :: ESA – European Space Agency A space probe successfully ...

(CNN) — NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an effort to conserve power and keep their storied missions going. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ...

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 ...

TOKYO - Japanese scientists were trying to track a space probe almost 300 million km (186 million miles) from earth on Sunday, on a mission to bring back the world's first samples from an asteroid.