On May 20, 1978, NASA launched a spacecraft to Venus. The mission was called Pioneer-Venus 1, but it’s also known as the Pioneer Venus Orbiter. This was the first of two spacecraft that made up ...

June 17 (UPI) -- Two NASA employees are being cited for their civic work in the nation's space industry. The Samuel J. Heyman ...

Here are the latest updates on NASA's oldest spacecraft, such as Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons.

One of NASA's top ozone depletion and air pollution scientists, credited with enhancing local air pollution measurement tools and dozens of other climate related research advancements, has died at ...

NASA’s first-ever spacecraft mission took place 64 years ago this week, though it didn’t quite work out as planned. Pioneer 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on October 11, 1958, and was intended ...

They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If ...

Not many aircraft can claim to be truly one of a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them. No other piloted plane has ever been built with a wing that could turn to a lopsided 20 to 2 ...

Today, for Pioneer 11, that frontier resides an estimated 10.2 billion miles (16.4 billion km) from Earth — or about 110 astronomical units (AU; 1 AU is equal to the average Earth-Sun distance).

As NASA wrestles with Artemis 1's engine woes that are delaying the return to human exploration of the moon, the agency has solved another mystery, one causing its 45-year-old spacecraft, Voyager ...