More evidence that Voyager has exited the solar system
Something very, very interesting is happening with Voyager 1, the human probe that’s the very farthest from Earth. New data from the spacecraft, which I will discuss below, indicate Voyager 1 may have...
View ArticleEarth’s photo to be taken from Saturn today: How does our planet look from...
At 4:42 p.m. CT today the Cassini spacecraft, at a distance of 1.5 billion kilometers, will snap what astronomers envision will be an iconic photo of Earth from Saturn. NASA is encouraging the public...
View ArticleNASA’s most glorious decade was…
The 1970s. People often assume the 1960s were NASA’s greatest decade, but I would argue, especially after the entry of Voyager 1 into interstellar space, that the space agency accomplished...
View ArticleNew Horizons closing in on Pluto, marking the end of humanity’s first era of...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has spent a decade chasing down Pluto, and it’s now just four days away from a Tuesday morning flyby. At closest approach early Tuesday the spacecraft will come within...
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