Measuring light across 180 million miles Captured during its cruise phase roughly 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) ...

The left panel shows the solar system and Earth. The upper right panel presents the layered structure of the Earth, with arrows showing the coupling between mantle convection and tectonic plate motion ...

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How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

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Special Delivery: NASA’s MESSENGER Sends Flyby Data to Earth Using CCSDS File Delivery Protocol Developed for Deep Space by International Team WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (CCSDS) – NASA’s MESSENGER team is ...

NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine ...

Canberra joined the global network in 1965 and operates four radio antennas. Now, preparations have begun on its fifth as NASA works to increase the network's capacity. NASA's Deep Space Network ...