The mission, which has been discussed since at least 2008, is centered around an unmanned probe that will fly within four million miles of the sun. ... according to the space agency.

NASA’s first unmanned lunar probe in more than a decade arrived at the moon early Tuesday. Skip to main content. ... Space photo of the day for June 6, 2025 . Space Exploration; ...

For a long time, the idea of sending unmanned space probes through the depths of interstellar space to distant stars was purely utopian. Recent research on new concepts -- amongst others within ...

Avi Loeb discusses his expectation that unmanned alien space probes would vastly outnumber manned alien spaceships. This is certainly the case for the human space program where we have sent out about ...

How Mars Opportunity rover ranks in list of more than 1,000 unmanned space missions by NASA since 1958. ... Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit.

NASA and other space agencies have designed and built hundreds of unmanned spacecraft, including satellites, probes, telescopes, and other devices to learn more about space. In this activity, you’ll ...

Just over five years ago, on Feb. 22, 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be ...

An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing lunar rocks, an achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said ...

Russia has launched a lunar probe for the first time in nearly 50 years, with the goal of making the first uncrewed landing at the moon's south pole.

China on Friday launched a space probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon as the global space race heats up. An unmanned rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 lunar probe took off from ...

May 3 (UPI) --China hopes to return samples from the far side of the moon in a mission that started Friday with the unmanned rocket launch from the Wenchang Space Launch Center.The Chang'e-6 probe ...