space probe

A space probe on its way to orbit Mercury just sent home a spooky selfie with Venus, captured during a flyby of the second planet from the sun.

Last week, the US space agency tapped the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch a space probe to one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, in 2024.

To navigate the solar system today, space probes listen for signals from antennas on Earth and then bounce those signals back.

Exactly what space probe sat in the lumber yard that night is still unclear.

Space Invaders had just been introduced in America, and Atari was looking for a game that would do it one better.

However, the probe stayed in contact with the Rosetta orbiter and has already sent back some photos.

Then finally, the probe had to be released at the right moment and on the right course to land at that spot.

The probe appears to be sitting at the bottom of a "cliff" on the comet, but beyond that it's hard to tell.

UPDATE: Since publication yesterday, the Philae team learned that the probe bounced two times and apparently landed on its side.

It was risky work to leave the valuable convoy for an instant, but Malcolm felt that he must probe this mystery.

I have not been able to perceive a hole sufficient even to admit a small probe.

And we may proceed to the remaining two of the great classes into which facts have been divided; Resemblance, and Order in Space.

A suspense story of Tomorrow and a crisis in the advance into Space.

"We were going to talk about the Space Guard," Lyla said in an emotionless tone.