NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured stunning new images as it whipped past Earth during a high-speed slingshot maneuver, sending the probe on a fast track toward the asteroid Apophis.

The ESA's Hera space probe is positioned as a frontrunner in planetary defence in light of the hype surrounding 3I/ATLAS and ...

New balloon-mounted space radiation probes developed by the Surrey Space Center at the University of Surrey have captured ...

Every once in awhile, NASA publishes a photo of something in space taken by one of their probes. But how exactly do probes in ...

KU astronomy professor Elisabeth Mills' proposed space probe, PRIMA, has been chosen by NASA for funding and further investigation. A space probe concept with a KU team member has moved on to the next ...

The trio of space probes will detect and measure gravitational waves originating from places such as smaller stellar mass black holes orbiting supermassive black holes. By studying the data the probes ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth — but only if the scientists operating them act ...

KANSAS (KSNT) – A Soviet space probe built to withstand Venus’ harsh atmosphere will crash into Earth at an unknown location sometime next week. 27 News spoke to NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador ...

STORY: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS VIDEO AND SCRIPT HAS BEEN REFILED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE PROBE'S LAUNCH, WHICH OCCURRED ON APRIL 29. :: ESA – European Space Agency A space probe successfully ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...

Some of those early space probes succeeded in their missions, capturing the first measurements and images from the Venusian surface. Kosmos 482 was not one of them. Launched in 1972, Kosmos 482 was ...

There’s more bad news for NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles from ...