A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...
This stunning and epic video of Earth from space showcases breathtaking highlights of natural events such as the ozone layer, ...
The "Pale Blue Dot" picture of Planet Earth was acquired by the Voyager 1 probe exactly 30 years ago ... caught within a ray of sunlight. But the image now looks "cleaner"; the Earth is easier ...
Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...
Traveling at 38,000 miles per hour, Voyager 1 is currently 15 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space. Nearly 50 ...
This close-up view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1. It shows the great red spot—an anticyclone three and a half times the size of Earth, as well as the clouds swirling around it. The image was ...
NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
Because of the position of Jupiter in relation to Earth at the times of the launches, Voyager 1 would actually reach ... it had returned 19,000 images of the giant planet and many of its ...
NASA's Voyager 1 team tackled complex challenges by successfully switching to backup thrusters after the primary ones became clogged with silicon dioxide. The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay ...