Voyager 1 shuts off instrument to buy time before ‘Big Bang’ fix to extend the mission

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could ...
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To keep the Voyager 1 spacecraft on its interstellar journey, NASA turned off one of its few remaining instruments

Two spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 blasted off to investigate Jupiter and Saturn. They’re still gathering data ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS found to have ultra-cold origin

Astronomers have conducted the first isotopic analysis of an interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, revealing it formed in an extremely cold, remote part of the Milky Way. The comet’s water contains ...

Laser-powered, ‘metajets’ could be the future of interstellar flight

Alpha Centauri sits more than four light-years away, close enough to fascinate generations of dreamers and far enough to make ...
Scientific American

Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically ...
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'Interstellar glaciers' could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming ...

This rare interstellar comet is spewing massive amounts of water into space

A comet named 3I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, and is located about 420 million miles away from Earth, ...

Nasa’s interstellar space probe Voyager 1 is losing power

Nasa is rushing to find a solution to prevent its first interstellar spacecraft from running out of power. Voyager 1, which ...
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Project Hail Mary's time dilation: A bittersweet twist like Interstellar

A hidden time dilation story unfolds in Project Hail Mary that secretly seems to make it almost as bittetsweet as Christopher ...