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NASA Powers Down Equipment on Voyager Probes as They Struggle for Life
There's more bad news for NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles ...
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The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
New Horizons is traveling out of the solar system, where its RTGs will provide power where solar panels could not. However, ...
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 ...
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NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep ...
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NASA's twin Voyager probes are shutting down some instruments to conserve power
Space is *** very big place for real, and one of the biggest goals of humanity over the course of the last few decades is the concept of us sending things out into the Earth's orbit or into the ...
Webb captures Neptune's auroras for first time
Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets of our solar system.
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA’s twin ...