(NASA's Juno craft, exploring the greater Jupiter system, also carries a vault.) Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly ...

Parker Solar Probe completed its seventh and final Venus gravity-assist maneuver, swinging onto a path that will bring it to ...

NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects ...

A diagram shows its orbit around Earth, the sun and several other planets nearer the sun in the Solar System. NASA tracks close approaches and calculates the odds of those space rocks ...

Both Voyager 1 and 2 are now beyond the planets in our solar system and into interstellar space. NASA/JPL-Caltech Its target? To go as far as any man-made object has ever gone. The universe is a ...

Parker is attempting to be the closest a human-made object has been to the sun. NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history ...

Brace yourselves, Earthlings: NASA, the NOAA, and the Solar Cycle Prediction Panel have officially declared that solar maximum is now underway. What does that mean? Our Sun is reaching the peak of ...

Our excitable sun kicked out a solar flare on Thursday that's the biggest since 2017. The eruption of energy from our closest star could possibly trigger spectacular auroras. NASA's Solar Dynamics ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Four cameras aboard NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft show the four ...