Voyager 1 Went Silent for 48 Hours, Then Its Signal Came Back
NASA is investigating Voyager 1’s October communications pause as the spacecraft approaches one light-day from Earth on November 18.
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They Spent 378 Days on Fake Mars. Coming Home Meant Opening a Door in Houston.
Four volunteers emerged from NASA’s Mars simulation after 378 days of delayed messages and isolation. They even formed a band—and their work is not finished.
NASA’s Dragonfly Just Simulated the Hardest Flight It Will Make on Titan
NASA’s Dragonfly has completed its most comprehensive simulated flight yet, rehearsing the autonomous decisions it will need to reach Titan’s surface safely.
NASA Ends Swift Observatory After Nearly 22 Years of Chasing Cosmic Explosions
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its nearly 22-year mission, leaving behind a vast public archive and a rapid-response model that reshaped astronomy.
NASA’s 2028 Moon Landing Now Has Two Very Different Paths
NASA is keeping SpaceX and Blue Origin in contention for its first Artemis Moon landing. Their two flight plans could not be more different.
Hubble’s Edge-On View of NGC 1827 Turns a Pretty Galaxy Into a Cosmology Test
Hubble’s new edge-on portrait of NGC 1827 reveals dust lanes, young stars and a survey testing cosmology’s small-galaxy predictions.
That Glowing “Space Jellyfish” Was a Falcon 9 Carrying the ISS’s Next Experiments
A Falcon 9’s sunlit exhaust made a giant predawn “jellyfish” while Dragon carried more than 6,300 pounds of science and hardware to the ISS.
Astronomers Think a Dead Star May Be Making a New Planet—Thanks to 1999 Hubble Data
A 25-year-old Hubble puzzle may point to a gas giant forming from the debris of a star’s death. The planet is still a candidate, but the clue is remarkable.
Perseverance Has Driven Farther Than Any Vehicle on Another World
Perseverance passed Opportunity’s lifetime distance on Mars. Its self-driving system and repurposed helicopter hardware help explain how it keeps moving.
A Building-Sized Space Rock Hit the Moon. NASA Found the 728-Foot Crater in Old Images
A natural impact carved a 728-foot crater on the Moon. NASA found the fresh scar by comparing old orbital images—and discovered the blast changed the surrounding ground, too.