A problem with the Mars Antenna, a giant NASA radio dish in California, has disrupted the Deep Space Network's spacecraft communication efforts, as well as asteroid studies, since Sept. 16, 2025.

When the general public thinks about NASA, they likely think about space shuttles, rockets, satellites, and the International Space Station in Earth's lower orbit. Despite NASA's future without the ...

NASA's long-distance spacecraft-calling network just got a boost. The Deep Space Network (DSN), best known for communicating with distant spacecraft such as Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons, ...

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The 70-meter antenna, designated DSS-14, at the Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — A key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) that was damaged last fall ...

The aging infrastructure of the Deep Space Network is operating at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade. The latest news isn't helping. Reading time 3 minutes A massive antenna used to ...

NASA has broken ground near Canberra, Australia, on a project to replace its three 70-meter Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas with a new generation of 34-meter antennas by 2025. The 70-meter (230-foot ...

A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday, forcing an evacuation and temporarily suspending operations at one of NASA ...

It’s the farthest long-distance phone call in the known universe. When the astronauts of the Artemis II mission embark Wednesday on their scheduled journey beyond Earth’s orbit, in order to phone home ...