NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

In a finding that’s as strange as it is fascinating, NASA’s Voyager 1 has entered a region just beyond the heliopause where temperatures skyrocket to an estimated 50,000°C, and yet—against all odds—it ...

On September 5, 1977, the power situation was a good deal healthier when the mission got underway. Launched just over two ...

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe lost contact with Earth for nearly a full day recently, but the problem was solved in time for ...

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In simulations, the new LS codes reliably measured distances that are between 12 and 2,375 times as far as the distances that existing measuring codes can measure. As a result, the codes could enable ...

Air and space were linked together in a recent flight test by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler ...

Chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, Wu Weiren, said during the conference that, under the framework of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), ...

Lv Wenyang's journey into interstellar navigation began in 2003 when he participated in China's first lunar exploration ...