Bittersweet feeling as Cassini mission embarks on its ‘grand finale’ ahead of death plunge

One of the most successful space exploration missions of all time still has a lot left to uncover

Dawn captures gleaming, bright spots on Ceres

The NASA spacecraft will map the entire Ceres six times over the next two months

Lucy in the sky: Things to know about NASA mission to Jupiter’s Trojans

NASA’s Lucy mission is going where no one else has before. It aims to look back into the origins of the solar system through Trojans 

Saturn, as seen by Cassini

Japan’s space probe first to capture material beneath asteroid surface

Hayabusa2 made its first touchdown on Ryugu — a kilometre-wide asteriod, with a relatively dark surface and almost zero gravity — in …

50th anniversary of Apollo 11: Look at these panoramas from the Moon missions

It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission, when humans stepped on the surface of the moon for the first time. The National Aeronautics …

Voyager 2 has lost track of Earth. Only one antenna in the world can help it ‘phone home’

NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Station 43 is the only antenna in the world that can communicate directly with both Voyagers

NASA tests Orion—the spacecraft that might carry people to Mars

The spacecraft is believed to be NASA's best hope for putting people back in space after the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 1972

Voyager 1 reaches interstellar space

Data on plasma, densest and slowest moving particles in space, used to back claim

Russian spacecraft out of control, falling to Earth

The unmanned spacecraft was to dock with the International Space Station on April 30

Hubble telescope confirms presence of water on Jupiter’s largest moon

Ganymede has a salty, underground ocean, according to observations made by the telescope

NASA gets ready to say farewell to InSight spacecraft on Mars

Lander losing power after 4 years on the Red Planet as dust gathers over solar panels

Cassini dives into Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens probe has enabled scientists analyse the surface and atmosphere of some of Saturn's mysterious moons

Comets may have brought key chemicals to Earth to kick-start life

Philae Lander sends rich data from Comet 67p before falling asleep

Artemis: Why it may be the last mission for NASA astronauts

Within the next few decades, robotic exploration of Mars could be almost entirely autonomous

‘Blue marble’: How half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth

 A photo taken by NASA in December 1972 has become an icon of the global environmental movement

Of canals and intelligent creatures

Mankind’s early tryst with Mars