Compact sensor-packed probes, propelled by laser- or Sun-powered sails, could be humanity's first scouts to another star system.

After a successful trial on Voyager 2, NASA plans to execute its “big bang” power diversion on humanity’s most distant space ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe reached its final orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point on Jan. 10, 2026.

The discovery of an atmosphere around the rocky exoplanet LHS 1140b has renewed attention on a question once limited to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression of Nasa’s Voyager 1 satellite (Nasa) Nasa is rushing to find a solution to prevent its first interstellar ...

A clever swap has extended the historic Voyager 2’s mission in interstellar space. Engineers are hoping to do the same for ...

Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has successfully collected ...

A few days ago, an inscrutable interstellar interloper made its closest approach to Mars, where a fleet of international spacecraft seek to unravel the red planet’s ancient mysteries. Several of the ...

On Oct. 3, 2025 the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter turned its eyes toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars, capturing imagery of the object (the fuzzy blob at ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of the "universal constructor." The theory ...