Well, just like an aging person an old spacecraft will get those little aches and pains, and things stop working, or they don ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover achieved a historic milestone by capturing the first-ever image of Earth alongside Phobos, one of Mars ...

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

NASA's Voyager 1 faces age-related thruster issues due to clogging. Engineers switch to backup thrusters to keep Voyager operational.

Traveling at 38,000 miles per hour, Voyager 1 is currently 15 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space. Nearly 50 ...

Earth stands apart from other planets, not just due to its life-sustaining environment, but also because of its ever-shifting surface. Unlike the barren landscapes of Mars or the stormy gas giants ...

These thrusters keep Voyager 1 pointed at Earth, enabling it to send and receive vital data. Engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) successfully addressed the issue by switching to a ...

Engineers working on NASA's Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft's thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive commands ...