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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar System
When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
New solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
In the stars: NASA ambassador to visit HMA
HUNTINGTON There are so many reasons to be drawn to the study of outer space. Huntington resident Ellie White knows. She’s ...
Phys.org on MSN10d
Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
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NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981
In August 2012, Voyager 1 made history as it entered interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN8d
Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
The Icy Crust of Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Hiding Secrets to Our World and Life Beyond It
A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...
MIT scientists study particles from distant asteroid for clues to the outer solar system’s origin
We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...