#Spacecraft

At the closest point of this flyby, Cassini was 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) away from the surface of Titan.

This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th, 2014. At the time the comet-chasing spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth, but only 16 kilometers from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.…

Space junk is a growing threat, and Britain's $81 million active debris removal mission aims to grab dead satellites with robotic claws and destroy them in Earth's atmosphere.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los…

Using a planet’s atmosphere to secure a satellite’s place in orbit, a process known as “aerocapture”, has been the dream of flight engineers for decades. The only problem? It’s really hard to actually do.…

Today in the history of astronomy, a mission to the understudied planet Mercury kicks off.

Zond 8 flew a loop around the moon without a crew, but did capture stunning camera views of Earth and the moon together.

Voyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instruments later this year, until NASA made some power changes.

Scientists are trying to understand Venus' bright surface formations, called coronae, using new 3D maps.

Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 mph while also producing rare crescent images of Mars…

In August 2025, a NASA spacecraft detected a solar radio burst that refused to stop lasting 19 days, nearly four times longer than any previously recorded.…

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, capturing images as it came within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface.…

The tool isn't a one-step solution to the complex task of mission planning, but it will be a useful in evaluating the best trajectory for each mission, the researchers say.

From Space.com: No, this isn't a solar eclipse. It's an image of Mars, captured by NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche probe