NASA's tritium betavoltaic devices offer a compact, efficient power solution for autonomous sensors, enhancing capabilities ...

The Trump administration is closing a historic NASA science office in the name of efficiency, but critics point out that the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to broadcast a live performance of the Danube Waltz composed by Johann Strauss II into space on 31 May. The classical piece was used as film music in the sci-fi ...

the properties of materials aboard the Voyager spacecraft are somewhat of a mystery. So the idea of troubleshooting a thruster issue seemed riskier than switching to a backup system. That ...

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NEW YORK — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures ...

Voyager 2 was the first and remains the only spacecraft to fly past Uranus and Neptune, worlds where it discovered superfast winds, more than a dozen moons and six new rings, as well as Uranus’s ...

“[Voyager] was designed with nearly everything redundant. Having two spacecraft — right there is a redundancy.” Just last month, the Voyager 1 probe experienced a problem with its thrusters ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not ...

Here’s how it works. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar ...

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore ... Hint: None are in Florida Football fans think the Super Bowl logo predicted the teams playing again — here ...

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space ...