The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe appears shining as it coasts away from Cassini in this image taken on Dec. 26, 2004, just two days after it successfully detached from the Cassini spacecraft.

A NASA probe caught a massive eruption from the sun on camera. The Parker Solar Probe flew right through a major coronal mass ejection last year. The spacecraft was built to study the sun and is able ...

The shape-shifting SORA-Q probe. Photo credit: JAXA, Takara Tomy, Sony Group Corporation and Doshisha University - Copyright JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY (JAXA ...

DART won’t survive its mission to deflect an asteroid, but the recently deployed LICIACube—a tiny probe equipped with cameras—will document the encounter in gory detail. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

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