Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Wild Video Shows Solar Winds Spiraling Millions of Miles From the Sun
The video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...
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Everything Under the Sun
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
‘Voyager’s failing signals’: The urgent need for a new deep space probe
NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...
SpaceX Again Scrubs Launch of NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions
The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on Saturday night.
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NASA extends missions of 'deep space rock stars'
Other instruments have remained under power while studying the solar system's heliosphere, which NASA describes as a "bubble of solar wind and magnetic fields created by the Sun." The remaining ...
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NASA's twin Voyager probes are shutting down some instruments to conserve power
Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, while Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles away, according to NASA. Both probes are the only spacecraft to operate beyond the heliosphere ...