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…
50 Years Later, NASA’s Voyager Probe Is Reaching A Big Milestone For Space Travel
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will hit a remarkable milestone on November 18, 2026 when it reaches a distance of…
NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft are very low on power after nearly 50 years. How long can they keep going?
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Voyager 1 has little time left in interstellar space. An ambitious ‘Big Bang’ fix may change that
Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it explores uncharted…
Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball
Comet 3I/ATLAS, an object from another star that was found speeding through our solar system last summer, is…
NASA shuts off Voyager 1 probe
Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object from Earth, shut down one of its three remaining instruments as…
Space photo of the week
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Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in 2026. Here’s what that means
Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November…
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…
NASA releases images of 3I/ATLAS. What the interstellar comet looks like
Just days ago, NASA dropped a batch of new images of a comet from an entirely different solar…