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NASA Restores Communications with Voyager 1 April 23, 2024
The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is finally phoning home again. This is much to the relief of mission engineers, scientists, and Voyager fans around the world. On November 14, 2023, the aging spacecraft began sending what amounted to a string of gibberish back to Earth. It appeared to be getting commands from Earth and seemed […]
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Will We Know if TRAPPIST-1e has Life? April 22, 2024
The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists discovered thousands of exoplanets, most of which were detected and confirmed using indirect methods. But in more recent years, and with the launch of the James Webb Space […]
Matt Williams
Astronaut Food Will Lose Nutrients on Long-Duration Missions. NASA is Working on a Fix April 22, 2024
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are often visited by supply ships from Earth with food among other things. Take a trip to Mars or other and the distances are much greater making it impractical to send fresh supplies. The prepackaged food used by NASA loses nutritional value over time so NASA is looking […]
Mark Thompson
There Was a Doomed Comet Near the Sun During the Eclipse April 22, 2024
A surprise cometary appearance made the April 8th total solar eclipse all the more memorable. The post There Was a Doomed Comet Near the Sun During the Eclipse appeared first on Universe Today.
David Dickinson
The Ingenuity Team Downloads the Final Data from the Mars Helicopter. The Mission is Over April 21, 2024
I really can’t believe that the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars took its maiden voyage in April 2021. On the 16th April 2024, engineers at NASA have received the final batch of data from the craft which marks the final task of the team. Ingenuity’s work is not over though as it will remain on the […]
Mark Thompson

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