"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

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 ...

What is the behavior of modern space science when a visitor of another star system arrives measuring it during silence, or describing it in noisy terms? The longest lasting fascination in the case of ...

KANSAS (KSNT) – A Soviet space probe built to withstand Venus’ harsh atmosphere will crash into Earth at an unknown location sometime next week. 27 News spoke to NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador ...

Researchers able to track for the first time how a particularly active region of the sun develops over three solar ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth — but only if the scientists operating them act ...

KU astronomy professor Elisabeth Mills' proposed space probe, PRIMA, has been chosen by NASA for funding and further investigation. A space probe concept with a KU team member has moved on to the next ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach one light-day from Earth in November 2026, emphasising the immense scale of ...

There’s more bad news for NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles from ...

The trio of space probes will detect and measure gravitational waves originating from places such as smaller stellar mass black holes orbiting supermassive black holes. By studying the data the probes ...

The sun is the star of the show. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The ...