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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...
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Voyager 1 shocks NASA by communicating with a radio system not used since 1981
Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...
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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
Is there a hidden planet in our solar system? Astronomers say the moment of truth is near
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’ from 15.4 billion miles into space
The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...
NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
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NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981
In August 2012, Voyager 1 made history as it entered interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ...
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Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal
Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...
NASA’s Voyager Shuts Down Plasma Sensor After 47 Years of Discovery
After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off. NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft were originally designed for a four-year ...
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods — after a technical issue caused a days-long communications blackout with the historic mission ...
On This Day, Nov. 5: Fort Hood shooting leaves 13 dead
On Nov. 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people, including 10 military personnel, and injured 31 others in a ...
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On This Day: Fort Hood shooting leaves 13 dead
A civilian shot the gunman, who escaped and later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In 2018, Voyager 2 left the ...