From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets look slow by comparison.

Spacecraft burn tons of fuel and leave behind debris—but a clever technique called aerobraking could fix both problems.

including validating the spacecraft's performance and practicing docking with the SLS upper stage as a target. If everything works according to plan, the doors will be opened so that humans can ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers. Spacecraft used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft ...

The fastest human-made objects are spacecraft. They use rockets to break free of the Earth’s gravity, which takes a speed of 25,000 mph. The spacecraft that is traveling the fastest is NASA’s ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test proved successful in altering the course of an asteroid's trajectory, according to NASA NASA has — for the first time in human history — altered the ...

Humans have been flinging things into deep ... Leslie Young, wants to use the spacecraft for a new look at something closer to home: the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune. New Horizons’ unique ...

Humans could be living on the moon before 2030, a NASA official told the BBC. Howard Hu, who oversees the Orion spacecraft used in the Artemis program, told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ...

"However, when it became clear that we might have to execute this flyby with one of the solar arrays unlatched, we chose to use ... The spacecraft was named after Lucy, the fossilized human ...

A common case where spacecraft controllers use aerobraking is when changing the ... Aerobraking maneuvers can result in significant fuel savings. As humans get closer to landing on the surface ...