But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the Sun, is over a hundred times larger than the distance from the Sun to ...

NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the ...

According to Ding Chibiao, Vice President of the China Academy of Sciences (CAS), the construction of the lunar space station ...

NASA engineers have deactivated the plasma science instrument on the Voyager 2 spacecraft as its power diminishes over time.

The switch-off command, which was transmitted to the probe at the end of September, now means that only four instruments ...

China announced plans to launch a manned lunar mission, construct a lunar space station and explore habitable planets and ...

Special equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

Science emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the coupled Sun-Earth system that affect life and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing ...

China’s moon programme is part of a growing rivalry with the US – still the leader in space exploration – and others, including Japan and India. The US is planning to land astronauts on the moon for ...