This week, uncover the challenges faced by Voyager 1, meet flower-licking wolves, see an unexpected ancient lifesaving tool, ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

Scientists say 3I/ATLAS, one of the rarest comets ever seen, likely isn’t alone and that more interstellar objects may soon ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...

When I see planets in the night sky, I think of them as old friends. I know, I know — I need to get out more, but my oldest ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study.

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image of comet ... hazardous asteroids spotted a visitor from another star: an ...

Outbound -- Alignment. Voyagers ; Gravity assist ; Message in a bottle -- The Grand Tour. New worlds among the king's court ; Drama within the rings ; Bull's-eye at a tilted world ; Last of the ice ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...