NASA pulls off daring trick to keep Voyager 2 alive
Somewhere more than 13 billion miles from Earth, a nearly 50-year-old spacecraft is still doing its job. Voyager…
After Nearly 50 Years In The Depths Of Space, Voyager 1 Still Sends Messages That Take 23 Hours To Reach Earth
It traverses the ocean of stars that lies beyond our solar system, both the oldest spacecraft still in…
NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth
Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its three moons. Credit: NASA. Whomst has awakened…
Space photo of the week
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How one image taken from 3.7 billion miles away proved Earth is a speck in space
Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by…
Scientists Just Discovered a Quantum Physics Loophole—And It Could Finally Unlock Interstellar Travel
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Interstellar Object Is Spraying Something Weird, Scientists Find
A new analysis of our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveal that it’s spewing huge amounts of water…
Interstellar Object Is Spraying Something Weird, Scientists Find
A new analysis of our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveal that it’s spewing huge amounts of water…
Spacecrafts photograph rare interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Here’s what we know
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is on the opposite side of the sun from Earth – but several spacecraft are…
Massive interstellar 3I/Atlas comet is about to disappear from Earth’s view
Our solar system’s third discovered interstellar visitor, comet 3I/Atlas, will dip into the glare of the Sun this…