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…
Now past the halfway mark in its mission at the giant of our solar system,…
The boundaries of astronomical discovery keep getting pushed, especially in the 21st century with new…
As another spacecraft prepares to land on Mars, the Dawn spacecraft recently ended its mission…
For the second time this year, Roscosmos launched three crewmembers towards the International Space Station.…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launched the AFSPC-11 mission for the United States Air…
Today marks the 2,000th Martian day (Sol) of operation for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory –…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket has deployed an advanced weather satellite for the US…
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V has launched on her seventy-fifth flight, lofting the SBIRS GEO-4,…
Like most years, 2017 saw numerous scientific advancements and discoveries throughout the solar system and…
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule for resupply mission CRS-13 has arrived at the International Space Station on…
More than two years after New Horizons flew past Pluto, becoming the first human-made object…
Goodbye, Cassini. And thank you. After a 20-year mission, 13 in orbit of Saturn, Cassini…
Exactly 38 years to the day after Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to encounter…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a new satellite for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay…
The first spacecraft to leave the inner solar system sailed into the asteroid belt 45…
NASA has confirmed “statistically significant evidence” from the Hubble Space Telescope indicating the presence of…