The hotly contested question has been answered: Voyager 1 is humanity’s first object to enter interstellar space. The historic announcement came from NASA after a year of review into 2012 and 2013 data points from the intrepid probe. Officially, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space on 25 August 2012.
Like its sister probe Voyager 2, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been an instrumental force…
On August 20, 1977, the intrepid spacecraft Voyager 2 launched from the Cape Canaveral Air…
The Voyager spacecraft – NASA’s longest operational interplanetary probes – are about to enter their 34th…
60 years ago, on May 8, 1962, Atlas-LV3C Centaur-A – designated Atlas Centaur-1 (AC-1) –…
Blue Origin launched a crew of six people on board a New Shepard rocket on…
Juno, NASA’s flagship mission to Jupiter, marks five years at the solar system’s largest planet…
Titan, the atmosphere-shrouded moon of Saturn, has captivated scientists’ attention since its formal discovery on…
Since Mariner 9 entered orbit around Mars on November 14, 1971, NASA has been continuously…
NASA’s Deep Space Network, commonly referred to as the DSN, has welcomed a new dish,…
More than four and a half years after arriving in orbit of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno…
It’s a constant of the universe. Dark matter – a key ingredient for the formation…
From the robotic arms of the Shuttle era and the International Space Station to synthetic…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, the agency’s flagship mission to Jupiter, continues to stream back an incredible…
It was 24 January 1986 when Voyager 2 flew by Uranus on its never-ending outbound…
The United States Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane began its sixth mission with launch aboard a…
A mission years in the planning and building took its next great leap Sunday evening…
Following her launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the company’s CRS-19 Dragon spacecraft completed journey…
Follow the water and the oxygen. Just two of the key tenets of humanity’s early…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket has deployed an advanced communications satellite for the US…
