12 September 2013, 02:01 PM ET
A probe from Earth has taken its first steps in interstellar space. After streaking through space for nearly 35 years, NASA's robotic Voyager 1 probe finally left the solar system in August 2012, a study published today in the journal Science reports.
12 September 2013, 02:01 PM ET
NASA's Voyager 1 probe left the solar system last August, researchers announced today (Sept. 12). SPACE.com caught up with Voyager project scientist Ed Stone to discuss Voyager 1's historic achievement and what's next for the venerable probe.
12 September 2013, 02:00 PM ET
New data from NASA’s Voyager 1 indicates the probe has left the influence of the Sun’s bubble of charged particles and entered true interstellar space, after a 36-year odyssey through the Solar System, across more than 11,253,000,000 miles.
12 September 2013, 01:52 PM ET
The process of selecting a site for NASA's next landing on Mars, planned for September 2016, has narrowed to four semifinalist sites located close together in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars, as seen in this space wallpaper.
12 September 2013, 01:30 PM ET
If the top quark is not heavier than experiments currently suggest, a stranger-than-doomsday fate may await the cosmos — disembodied brains and virtually anything else could one day randomly materialize into existence.
12 September 2013, 01:14 PM ET
A gravity-mapping European satellite nearing the end of its fuel supply will make an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth, likely in October, AFP reported. Most of the satellite will burn up in the atmosphere, but a quarter of it likely will survive reentry.
12 September 2013, 01:00 PM ET
See images from NASA's twin Voyager probes, the farthest spacecraft from Earth.
12 September 2013, 12:50 PM ET
Over 34 hours of Hubble observation of Abell 1689 shows the gravitational lensing phenomenon produced by the cluster in greater detail. The blue streaks created by the phenomenon are distorted forms of galaxies behind the cluster.
12 September 2013, 12:00 PM ET
Space fans, rejoice! NASA is extending its social media reach by launching a new Instagram account, giving people the chance to share out-of-this-world photos on the go, according to agency officials.
12 September 2013, 11:13 AM ET
NASA says it will hold a press conference today (Sept. 12) to discuss an apparently new development in the one of the agency's far-flung Voyager spacecraft at the edge of the solar system, and you can watch the announcement live online.
12 September 2013, 11:07 AM ET
Using data From ESA's CryoSat mission, an animation has been created showing sea ice thickness from October 2010 to April 2013. Scientists believe that the actual volume of ice may reach a new low in 2013.
12 September 2013, 10:16 AM ET
NASA's Florida visitor center has dedicated a time capsule filled with memorabilia related to the 30-year space shuttle program
12 September 2013, 09:51 AM ET
Technicians move a container with experiments for irradiation.
12 September 2013, 06:30 AM ET
NASA has narrowed the list of candidates down to three space rocks for an ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and tow it to the moon, where it can be explored by astronauts. The three contenders were picked from a larger list of 14 objects.
12 September 2013, 06:00 AM ET
Using data from ESO telescopes, astronomers have found the center of our galaxy takes on a x-shaped appearance, that resembles a peanut. An animation of the Milky Way galaxy and simulation of a barred galaxy shows many angles of the area.
12 September 2013, 05:50 AM ET
NASA's well-traveled Deep Impact spacecraft, which slammed a probe into one comet and then flew by another, may be drifting out of control in deep space and starving for power. Efforts to restore communication with the probe are underway.
11 September 2013, 06:29 PM ET
SpaceX took a moment from preparing for its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from California to fly an American flag from its launch tower to honor those lost on Sept. 11, 2001. "Today, we look onward and upward, but #neverforget."
11 September 2013, 04:49 PM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive eruption and Earth coming between it and the Sun on September 11, 2013.
11 September 2013, 03:47 PM ET
After a flawless launch from Virginia's eastern shore, NASA's next moon probe is looking good on its way to lunar orbit.
11 September 2013, 03:42 PM ET
A group that's looking for the first Red Planet colonists received applications from more than 200,000 prospective astronauts vying for a spot on a one-way trip to Mars.
11 September 2013, 02:45 PM ET
Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as can be seen in this beautiful space wallpaper of the Carina nebula from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
11 September 2013, 02:13 PM ET
This timelapse of the entire sky during an aurora was filmed in 3D using two digital SLR's
11 September 2013, 02:01 PM ET
Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
11 September 2013, 01:54 PM ET
Regular digital SLR cameras have been used to make 3D images and video of Earth's auroras, suggested that citizen scientists could take such pictures and help scientists study the phenomenon.
11 September 2013, 01:54 PM ET
Sun-grazing asteroid Phaethon, has given away its true identity by showing its tail. NASA's STEREO spacecraft captured imagery of the asteroid ejecting dust between 2009 and 2012. This looped time-lapse shows the asteroid in 2009.
11 September 2013, 01:36 PM ET
Night sky photographer Thomas Kast captured this amazing view of the northern lights over Oulunsalo, Finland on Aug. 31. See what makes the northern lights tick.
11 September 2013, 12:16 PM ET
A baseball-sized piece of a comet lit up the sky on Monday night (Sept. 9), producing a brilliant fireball over the southeast United States.
11 September 2013, 11:27 AM ET
TextureCam, a technology whose development is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is designed to take pictures of rocks in 3-D and prioritize the ones that are most scientifically interesting. The smart camera could be used on Mars or more distant lo
11 September 2013, 11:21 AM ET
Despite landing on its side, the Soyuz capsule carrying Commander Pavel Vinogradov (at 60, the oldest person to land in a Soyuz), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin, and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sept 11th.
11 September 2013, 11:00 AM ET
See photos of amazing auroras taken by SPACE.com readers in 2013.
11 September 2013, 10:08 AM ET
The Horn reflector antenna pioneered work in communication satellites.
11 September 2013, 07:42 AM ET
Virgin Galactic looks poised to begin launching paying passengers into space by 2014, but the private spaceship company is going needs more folks with the "right stuff. Enter, the Virgin Galactic Career Fair.
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