When New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, it revealed a surprisingly active, icy world full of unexpected landscapes, glaciers, and possible cryovolcanoes. Despite being reclassified as a dwarf ...

Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that ...

The NC Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Astronomy Days, featuring moon-themed activities and Artemis 2 mission details.

We sent a probe on a one-way trip to Pluto, and it took nearly a decade. That mission, New Horizons, was a landmark achievement, finally giving us a complete photo album of the classical solar system.

3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar ...

A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. The encounter comes one year after the historic flyby last ...

(CNN) — Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is ...

Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dan Gallagher: Producer/Narrator Adriana Manrique ...

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They’ve got their Is on the prize. China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter has captured an image of 3I/ATLAS during its flyby of Mars, furthering efforts to shed light on the interstellar anomaly — which some have ...