The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could ...

Astronomers analyzed the vapors coming off the comet when it neared the sun and found it had a lot of "heavy" water. That ...

NASA has unveiled the first large-scale map of interstellar ice across the Milky Way using its SPHEREx telescope, revealing vast reservoirs that could seed future planets with water. In a separate ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth, the Voyager 1 probe, has just shut down another instrument. The reason for this shutdown ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has produced the first large-scale map of interstellar ice, revealing vast reservoirs of water and molecules that could seed future planets. Meanwhile, James Webb Space ...

The comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Regina Barber and Nell Greenfieldboyce about the Artemis moon missions, the "seismic quiet" during a solar eclipse, and the origins of a mysterious interstellar visitor.

Giant “interstellar glaciers” of water ice have been mapped across the Milky Way by NASA’s SPHEREx telescope, possibly laying ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

Imagine glaciers the size of entire star systems just floating in space. Actual frozen reservoirs stretching across hundreds ...

Nasa is rushing to find a solution to prevent its first interstellar spacecraft from running out of power. Voyager 1, which ...

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has ...