On June 25, 1997, a Russian Progress M-34 spacecraft collided with the Russian Mir space station. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

On June 24, 1999, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

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Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...

A large space probe plummeted into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday — years earlier than expected. And while most of the spacecraft was expected to disintegrate in a flaming blaze during reentry, a ...

This video explores the Soyuz spacecraft, which has been in use since the 1960s, and how it transports cosmonauts to the International Space Station. It includes animations created with Blender 2.93 ...

NASA has officially declared one of its probes near Mars 'unrecoverable' after it mysteriously went dark following its scans of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. On Wednesday, the space agency said ...

NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space. The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment (LECP) was turned ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are the ...