This could be the end of the orbiter that studies the Red Planet’s atmosphere and relays communications between NASA and its Mars rovers.

Scientists believe Mars once looked very different from the cold, dry world it is today, and MAVEN was launched to ...

The data from the reboost, scheduled for Nov. 8, will help inform design for a larger Dragon to deorbit the ISS. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A Soviet-era spacecraft that never made it to Venus more than 50 years ago is finally about to plunge back to Earth. That's according to academic and satellite watcher Marco Langbroek from Delft ...

While many in the industry were at first skeptical of NASA’s goal to put resupply flights to the International Space Station in the hands of commercial operators, the results speak for themselves.

Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...

Japan’s first lunar lander made an unsteady touchdown on the Moon last week, moments after one of its two main engines inexplicably lost power and apparently fell off the spacecraft, officials said ...

In December 2018, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft reached interstellar space, following the example of its sister, Voyager 1. Right now, only five spacecraft have been launched capable of making such a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Voyager spacecraft are the frontier scouts of our species and, given their head start, they may be for ever ...

Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity's first interstellar probe ...

Earlier this month, SpaceX engineers completed the 27th and final test of the parachute system that will soon be responsible for carrying astronauts back to Earth. When the four parachute canopies ...

It's time to travel far, far away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceCraft is an online, space-exploration-meets-building game ...