The very first image of Earth from space was taken on October 24, 1946, from a German-made rocket launched from New Mexico. The U.S. seized the rocket at the end of World War II and studied its ...

NASA inadvertently cut contact with its Voyager 2 probe after sending a wrong command. It's scrambling to get back in touch but likely won't be able to fix the problem before October. The 46-year-old ...

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential "groundbreaking" results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang ...

NASA engineers have received a "heartbeat" signal from Voyager 2, bringing hope that they may be able to reestablish contact with the probe months ahead of schedule. When you purchase through links on ...

Giant ground-bound NASA antennas heard a “heartbeat” Tuesday indicating the 1970s-vintage Voyager 2 probe over 12.3 billion miles from Earth was still operational. The agency had initially lost ...

It turns out that reports of its death were greatly exaggerated. NASA says it’s figured out a way to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years. And that’s no easy ...

The probe, which launched in 1977, left the solar system in 2018. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reconnected with the Voyager 2 space probe after losing it. The space agency lost contact on July 21 after accidentally sending a wrong command. The team was able to ...

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