A new probe in development known as GIRO represents a low-cost step toward unlocking the secrets of exoplanets, all through ...

“There were lots of good ideas for how to do things ... than could Voyager 1 and 2. The spacecraft is thought to be in a “desert” between an inner and outer Kuiper Belt region, in which ...

Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI illustration Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked ... to meddle with conventional ideas about how the solar system ...

The spacecraft will then use Mars as a slingshot to get itself to the outer solar system. At this point, the travel time will be years. Eventually, we have made it to Jupiter, and once the ...

A project from UCLA's Artur Davoyan, meanwhile, could speed up missions to the outer edge of the Solar System and even interstellar space. His design (shown at middle) would propel spacecraft by ...

But sending spacecraft to scout extraterrestrial seas is neither trivial nor for the impatient. Voyages to the outer solar system ... about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.

A spacecraft shot stunning photographs of Earth from nearly one million miles away on its route to a pulverized asteroid. The ...

Anomalies in the moon’s gravitational field suggest our satellite’s insides are warmer on one side than the other – which ...

Engineers are currently trying to solve the issue as the aging spacecraft explores uncharted cosmic territory along the outer reaches of the solar system. Voyager 1 is currently the farthest ...

The mission will attempt a scientific feat by being the first to use a two-spacecraft setup to observe the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere. "The ability of this mission to observe the corona so ...