An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...

Sunita Williams is an accomplished NASA astronaut and a retired US Navy Captain. The Indian-origin veteran NASA astronaut has ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

The space agency said Wednesday that a sensor on Voyager 2 that analyses charged particles and cosmic rays would be turned ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...

In essence, NASA was proposing hiring privately owned rockets for spaceflight much the way fishing party might charter a boat. SpaceX—then a scrappy little startup—made its first cargo delivery to the ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments ... Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2012 and 2018, respectively. It is little wonder that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are operating ...