NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1
A computer glitch has put the future of humanity’s farthest-flung space probe in doubt. ..
A computer glitch has put the future of humanity’s farthest-flung space probe in doubt. ..
Welcome to the world’s foremost training ground for saving space from disasters, disputes, and—perhaps one day—colonizers named Musk. ..
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating planets that defy classification—forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet ..
The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to have subsurface oceans which could support life beyond Earth. But it’s not clear why these seas exist ..
The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in. ..
In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores. ..
A second Starship test flight advanced a bit farther than the first, with the rocket reaching the edge of space but blowing up soon after. Industry experts ..
This is SpaceX’s second attempt at sending Starship on a round-the-globe trip, following an April test flight that failed after only four minutes. This ..
As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter. ..
Roswell, New Mexico, remains synonymous with the “discovery” of alien life on Earth—and a US government coverup. But history shows the reality may be far less ..