Space

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the…

The Solar System is surrounded by a vast bubble of plasma created by solar wind flowing outward from…

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB), a developer of reusable orbital rockets, recently agreed to acquire Iridium (NASDAQ: IRDM), a…

Artist’s illustration of lava exoplanet CoRoT-7 b. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada JWST data suggest 55 Cancri e may be…

“Independence Day” definitely isn’t “The War of the Worlds”. The characters are all new, the alien invaders don’t…

The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it’s…

A few years ago, Saturn was listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, began finding them dozens…

Happy Fourth of July, Space Fans! As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, we here at Space.com…

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It is easy to imagine the fastest spacecraft as the one with the most ferocious engine. Parker Solar…

While the market remains largely focused on newly IPO’d Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), known as SpaceX, and…

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA has released four spectacular images of deep space…

The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light takes over 22 hours to reach it, and it is still sending data back from interstellar space on a power source the size of a car battery