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To Keep the Voyager 1 Spacecraft on Its Interstellar Journey, NASA Turned Off One of Its Few Remaining Instruments

The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific ...

Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball

Comet 3I/ATLAS, an object from another star that was found speeding through our solar system last summer, is now fading from ...
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Giant "interstellar glaciers" found that may bring water and life to new planets

Giant “interstellar glaciers” of water ice have been mapped across the Milky Way by NASA’s SPHEREx telescope, possibly laying ...
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'Interstellar glaciers' could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming ...

NASA shuts off Voyager 1 instrument to save power 15B miles from Earth

NASA shut down Voyager 1's charged particles instrument to save dwindling power, as the interstellar spacecraft loses about 4 ...

NASA turns off Voyager 1 instrument to prolong iconic probe's life

NASA has shut down a science instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the aging space probe's life as it ventures nearly 16 billion ...