A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale, using relativistic electron beams.

This payload, a scientific outreach project, will accompany the Chang'e 7 probe to the lunar south pole, aiming to use ...

What lies deep within the abyss of space, in the pre-history of the universe!? The first images transmitted by the James Webb ...

This was potentially mission-ending; the S-band downlink had last been used in 1981 when the probe was still well within the confines of the solar system, and the fear was that the Deep Space ...

Funding in India's space sector, a key part of the country's ambitions to become a global superpower, plummeted by 55% in ...

There are dozens of probes and satellites hurtling across the solar system ... Gilbraith highlighted several “deep space rendezvous” to look for this year. The first one should occur about Wednesday, ...

Built by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the telescope aims to offer technical support for the country's lunar and deep-space probe missions.[Photo/China ...

The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...

Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn't stop people from working on it. The ...

NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day.

One week after its record-breaking rendezvous with the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has reported that all its instruments are operational and the entire space probe is functioning normally.