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A clogged thruster could have ended Voyager 1’s interstellar mission. Engineers just saved it
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Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here’s how
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‘Voyager 2 is still going strong’
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It has been several months since one of humanity’s most accomplished spacecraft, the Voyager 1 probe, stopped talking to us — and ...
NASA’s IMAP probe will launch in 2025 to capture interstellar dust
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In May next year, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to capture minuscule dust particles streaming into our solar system from interstellar ...
Is the vacuum of space truly empty?
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Imagine going out to the deepest, emptiest place in the universe, achieving a perfect, total vacuum. Would you be surrounded by emptiness? ...