And yet, at age 27 and counting, the ISS is getting a bit long in the tooth. Most of the nations that built ISS have agreed to send it back down to Earth sometime after 2030, where it will (mostly) burn up in the atmosphere, with the remnants crashing into the sea.

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of two Voyager missions NASA launched that year. Thanks to a rare alignment of the planets,

On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in space,

Voyager 1 has been heading outward from Earth for almost half a century, but where is Voyager 1 now and how much longer will it be able to stay in space?

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.

South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also contribute its TACHELES cubesat. While Artemis 2 will send astronauts around the moon, the cubesats will have their own science objectives.