On 25 August 1989, Voyager 2 passed Neptune, the last planet of its tour and the most distant.
On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and came to rest on the surface.
Lunar Outpost has secured $30 million in Series B funding as the Colorado company tries to move from building individual lunar rovers to supplying the machines that could prepare the Moon for longer-term human use.
For nearly 40 years, Lunokhod 1 was not so much dead as misplaced. The Soviet rover had stopped responding in 1971, after almost a year on the lunar surface.
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced something close to a daily weather report for a planet 690 light-years away, and the forecast is strange: cloudy…
The structure of Hell, as Dante Alighieri laid it out in the early 14th century, is a cone-shaped cavity driven into the earth, narrowing through nine concentric rings toward a frozen pit at the centre of the planet.
On May 21, 2026, Apple announced the latest expansion of its health-monitoring features across a substantial new set of countries.
The World Health Organization declared, on May 17, 2026, that the Ebola outbreak currently spreading through the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
On 15 December 1970, a Soviet probe called Venera 7 reached the surface of Venus and kept transmitting.
The evening sky in the last week of May 2026 is doing several things at once, none of which is, on close examination, particularly rare in isolation, but the…
The Hubble Space Telescope returned to science operations on 14 June 2024 in a new pointing configuration that uses one of its three remaining gyroscopes instead of three.
On the morning of 8 January 2025, a red dot appeared on NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System.
Preliminary results from a study presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna earlier this month suggest that Venus-like planets…
On 15 August 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University recorded a narrowband radio signal that lasted roughly 72 seconds.
The White House's fiscal year 2027 budget request for NASA, released on 3 April, proposes cutting the agency's total funding from $24.4 billion to $18.8 billion, a reduction of roughly 23 percent.
Voyager 1 began transmitting unreadable data on 14 November 2023. The flight data subsystem, one of three onboard computers built in the 1970s, had stopped…
