Hundreds of sophisticated monitoring instruments will remain in place in the nation’s oceans, thanks to a National Science ...

The plan will keep Voyager 2's science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling yet more revelations from interstellar space. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to observe some of the most distant and ancient galaxies now it is in its new home, in orbit around the sun. Although it will be several months before it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an effort to conserve power ...

The European-Chinese Smile mission reached its designated science orbit on June 20, 2026. The team is now embarking on a ...

Relativity Space will build and deliver its own spacecraft, with NASA supplying only the instruments.

There’s nothing quite like the moment you switch a brand new gadget on for the first time — that refreshing ‘ding!’ and an unstained, glowing screen almost feel as productive as doing actual work. If ...

The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the ...

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. Voyager 2 launched into space on Aug. 20, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The time has finally come to switch off one of the instruments aboard one of the greatest ongoing scientific achievements of the human race. NASA ...

The assault by pollutants can seem relentless. Carbon dioxide in the air is leading to climate catastrophe, and fluorinated compounds in the water threaten to harm us. A small consolation is that ...