NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were ...
Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...
Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...
"It is a world of extremes and contradictions, so I dubbed it the ‘Problem Child of the Solar System’ in the past." The ...
A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...
NASA on MSN14d
Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster SwapThe spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
The Seven Most Interesting Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring SaturnSaturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects—in size, age, prominence of stripes—but in terms of scientific intrigue, it ...
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
Jupiter's molten moon Io has been surveyed by a number of passing spacecraft, allowing planetary scientists to see changes on ...
The first paper on the samples collected from China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways ...
Space on MSN13d
NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar spaceNASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power.
On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system.
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