SpaceX launched a pair of commercial satellites carrying lunar rovers as competition intensifies in the private sector’s race to the moon.

The probe, equipped with Swiss instruments, has completed the last milestone before entering Mercury's orbit. The European-Japanese space probe has thus come closer to Mercury than ever before ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday ... deepen scientific understanding of our star and help forecast space-weather events that can affect life on Earth.

On Jan. 14, 2005: The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan after being carried from Earth by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. On Jan. 14, 2005, The European Space Agency (ESA) probe Huygens ...

The probe had to be meticulously designed to endure the extreme heat and radiation of the corona, only to rapidly cycle back into the cold vacuum of space on its elliptical orbits around the sun.

In this way, the solar probe has opened new windows into the sun’s turbulent workings, with implications that include protecting our civilization from dangerous space weather and assessing the ...

I believe the probe is one of the most difficult and historic missions NASA has ever done. Over my career as a space scientist, I built and operated a number of sun-observing instruments.