As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an ...

Compared to some other Star Trek shows, Deep Space Nine is overflowing with terrific space battles. Here are five episodes ...

NASA just switched on a new 114-foot antenna in California to keep communicating with over 40 spacecraft across the solar ...

A problem with the Mars Antenna, a giant NASA radio dish in California, has disrupted the Deep Space Network's spacecraft communication efforts, as well as asteroid studies, since Sept. 16, 2025.

China's push to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 is shifting from a long-term blueprint to tangible reality, with major infrastructure construction and hardware testing being carried out at pace by ...

This engine won't be fueling interstellar missions, but still finds an unexpected way to use deep space energy to generate power. Reading time 3 minutes Deep space may provide hidden sources of energy ...

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 ...

Canberra joined the global network in 1965 and operates four radio antennas. Now, preparations have begun on its fifth as NASA works to increase the network's capacity. NASA's Deep Space Network ...

NASA has released the mishap investigation report following an accident at Goldstone Complex near Barstow, California, involving one of its antennas in September 2025. Credit: NASA NASA staff ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life’s earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into energy—may have been born in deep space long before Earth existed, according to new ...

In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...

The U.S. Space Force has approved project planning and selected Lake Kickapoo as the preferred location for the third and final site of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability, or DARC, global ...