Fixing a Problems Billions of Miles Away in Space In the second half of 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and ...

It tested my sanity Late billionaire and investing legend Charlie Munger once said that he wouldn't be so rich if others ...

Starstruck Billions of years ago, our Solar System may have had an incredibly close encounter with another passing star. As ...

During the decades that humanity has collectively been exploring space we’ve sent up a lot of stuff. Much of it has stayed up there, orbiting the planet or eventually falling back to Earth and burning ...

Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...

The computer engineers down here will simply email them an encrypted word document, and they'll be able to open it, tally their votes, and send it back. Call it vote while you float. NASA does.

Flight Lieutenant Ben Davey had to fly without instruments or radio communications through thick clouds for two tense hours.

When the Voyager 1 probe flew past Jupiter, the images it sent back showed ... Computers work by receiving, storing, processing and sending out information. With a computer, you can also design ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.