I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

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NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

The Voyager probes Voyager 1 is a NASA probe launched in 1977 as part of a mission to explore the furthest reaches of our solar system.

NASA has revealed that they have sent a man-made machine further than they ever have before, and they said they made an odd discovery in the process. Back in 1977, NASA sent two space probes into ...

Voyager 1 and 2 crossed the Solar System’s 50,000 K heliopause, confirming predictions and sending back groundbreaking data from interstellar space.

The Last Time NASA's Voyager "Looked Back" At Our Solar System, This Is What It Saw Before it met the 30,000-50,000 kelvin wall at the edge of our Solar System, Voyager 1 took its final images.

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

Each upgrade leans on Voyager’s trailblazing data to pick targets and calibrate expectations. The odyssey continues In another dozen years the last science instrument may power down, and Voyager 1 ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying. The result is hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space ...