This year marks the forty-sixth anniversary of the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility's technical research and outreach ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of ...

Most robotic missions get a burst of attention at launch, a second burst at arrival, and then vanish from the news. Much of that hardware kept working anyway, logging measurements long after the press ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched Wednesday from a military-run spaceport in the country’s mountainous interior ...

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, mission will ...

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ESA has inaugurated a powerful new 35-meter deep space antenna at its New Norcia site in Western Australia, marking a major boost to Europe’s ability to communicate with spacecraft exploring the Solar ...

Explore the Solar System in this video, which demonstrates the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the Sun. Music: Big Screen by Silent Partner Created with Blender 2.73 ...