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NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 are the only probes to cross into interstellar space, but their outdated instruments can’t fully analyze the heliosphere’s boundaries. The heliosphere blocks cosmic ...
Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive plutonium.
NASA’s Deep Space Network just marked 60 years of interstellar communication with a groundbreaking new antenna in Canberra.
In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...
Canberra joined the global network in 1965 and operates four radio antennas. Now, preparations have begun on its fifth as ...
Budget passback documents reportedly suggest the White House wants to cut NASA's budget by half — possibly closing down ...
NASA Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43), a 230-foot-wide (70-meter-wide) radio antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, is ...
A new ultra-thin lightsail design could cut interstellar travel time by centuries, say scientists from Brown and TU Delft.