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NASA's Voyager spacecraft carry golden records loaded with music and photos, to explain our world to aliens
When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, they carried on board a collection of pho…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA fixed a glitch on Voyager 1 after consulting 45-year-old manuals. The spacecraft was beaming information through a dead computer.
Voyager 1 was designed and built in the early 1970s. Documentation could be lost or misplaced, maki…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A second mysterious object from interstellar space may be about to fly through our solar system
"It's so exciting, we're basically looking away from all of our other projects right now," Olivier …
Dave Mosher,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA's Voyager 1 is sending mysterious data from beyond our solar system. Scientists are unsure what it means.
Voyager 1's new data has scientists wondering if its systems may be glitching — which could a…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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There are 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter and Neptune — and even computers can’t predict where they are headed
Interstellar asteroids — asteroids from outside our solar system — may not be as rare as we once …
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NASA says Voyager 2 is the second human object ever to touch interstellar space - the void between stars
"The sun creates this huge bubble of plasma - ionized material - that goes outward at a million mil…
Dave Mosher
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Voyager 2 has been in space for 45 years. NASA just found a way to keep it alive for another 3, despite it being 12 billion miles from Earth.
The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has helped redefine our knowledge of the solar syste…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA has finally fixed the Hubble Space Telescope after almost 5 weeks of troubleshooting a mysterious glitch
Hubble has been conducting revolutionary science for 30 years, but its age is starting to catch up …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is about to switch its Hubble Space Telescope to backup hardware - a 'risky' maneuver to save its life
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline a month ago. They…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft beamed back unprecedented data from interstellar space. It indicates a mysterious extra layer outside our solar system.
The analyses indicate that there are mysterious extra layers between our solar system's bubble and …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA may attempt a 'risky' maneuver to fix its broken Hubble Space Telescope this week
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline in mid-June. Now,…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Even the Hubble Space Telescope's backup computer is glitching now - raising new questions about what's gone wrong
Hubble has been offline for 12 days. NASA's Hubble team is starting to think this may not be an err…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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To fix the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA may have to rely on a computer that hasn't turned on since 2009
Hubble engineers thought the issue was an old memory module. But that was just a symptom of the rea…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jeff Bezos is about to take an 11-minute flight to the edge of space. Here's how his childhood obsession with the cosmos led to Blue Origin's unprecedented spaceflight.
While the spaceflight is an unusual experiment, it's not a very surprising one: Bezos has been pass…
Avery Hartmans
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets
NASA's most powerful space telescope peers across the solar system to spy new storms on Jupiter and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for more than a week, and NASA isn't sure why
NASA's iconic Earth-orbiting observatory is getting old. After Hubble's last glitch over the summer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The biggest thing preventing humans from interstellar space travel
The "starship" in 100 Year Starship is really a shorthand for talking about Earth. We probably have…
Chris Weller
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'Interstellar' Is An Ambitiously Beautiful And Wacky Adventure Into Space
Whenever I watch a Christopher Nolan film I've grown accustomed to obsessively looking for clues in…
Kirsten Acuna
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The Martian Review: It is about hope, survival against odds and an intergalactic thrill
It’s a simple film that tugs at your heart, except for those moments when technology and space take…
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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry questions Elon Musk's space ambitions and pokes fun at GameStop's stock split
Burry suggested Musk's hubris could be his undoing, and joked that GameStop should enact a 40-for-1…