Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...
Even before the recently announced moons, Saturn had more than anyone could reasonably keep track of. Now, astronomers have ...
Why Nasa is switching off instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft - The twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977 ...
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...
Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...
The 50th birthday is a must, but the Voyager probes should ideally continue to work into the 2030s. To achieve this, however, ...