Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson, America's most experienced space flier, and rookie crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

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

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 ...

As the two astronauts selected for the Starliner's first crewed flight test, Wilmore and Williams launched June 5, 2024, on a mission to test Boeing's vehicle on behalf of NASA. The Starliner instead ...

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 ...

On Voyager 1, a fuel tube in the first attitude propulsion branch began to clog in 2002, necessitating a switch to the second branch, NASA officials wrote in the same statement.

NASA received Pioneer 11's last engineering data on November 24, 1995, and Pioneer 10's final signal on January 23, 2003, but both should still be zipping through space.

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, ... expanding on earlier flybys by the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes. ... by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) ...

Pioneer Legacy. Today, the public legacy of Pioneer is somewhat forgotten, overshadowed by more colorful (and plentiful) images of the outer planets taken by the subsequent Voyagers 1 and 2.