Both Voyager 1 and 2 have spent almost 49 years soaring through space. In the process, they’ve traveled further than any ...

Voyager 2 runs on radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which turn heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. That heat ...

Voyager 1 is running low on power for science, but a successful energy-saving maneuver on Voyager 2 raises hope that the 50-year-old spacecraft can keep going.

NASA and China are expanding the use of their space stations as biomedical research laboratories, using automated technologies to conduct more health and life science experiments while reducing the ...

NASA and SpaceX officials confirm Crew‑13 is on track for a September launch to the ISS with a science plan focused on health ...

NASA’s groundbreaking science missions, vital to exploring the cosmos and expanding humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe, are facing unprecedented threats. The White House has ...

Each time the moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse—darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the sun's ...

NASA is regularly announcing new discoveries and findings. Its research is consistent, and is conducted in space aboard the International Space Station and right here on Earth. Some of NASA’s biggest ...

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir will be making her third spacewalk of 2026. She'll be joined outside the International Space ...

A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty ...

"The Martian" was a hit at the box office, but fans have wondered whether the scientific claims shown in the film are ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s overall ...