The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.

We spoke to a genuine astrophysicist about the accuracy of Star Trek's approach to interstellar travel, the holodeck, and the ...

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.

The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific ...

Christopher Nolan's sci-fi movie Interstellar revitalized cinema set in outer space, but it also inspired this hidden TV gem ...

Discoveries of molecules in space that suggest extraterrestrial life are exciting, but they need to be taken with a grain of ...

A comet named 3I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, and is located about 420 million miles away from Earth, ...

"Each interstellar comet brings a little bit of its history, its fossils, from elsewhere." ...