How do you tell the difference between a spaceship and a space rock? For astronomers like me, this question has proved tricky — so tricky that we were very nearly fooled when the first recorded interstellar object, named ‘Oumuamua, was spotted passing through the inner solar system in 2017. Astronomers […]
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On Dec. 12, 2023, NASA shared some worrisome news about Voyager 1, the first probe to walk away from our solar system‘s gravitational party and enter the isolation of interstellar space. Surrounded by darkness, Voyager 1 seems to be glitching. It has been out there for more than 45 years, […]
In May next year, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to capture minuscule dust particles streaming into our solar system from interstellar space, in hopes of studying the very building blocks of our cosmic backyard. The primary goal of the mission, called the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), is […]
NASA’s Voyager 1 probe is currently unable to transmit any scientific or systems data back to Earth. The 46-year-old spacecraft is capable of receiving commands, but a problem seems to have arisen with the probe’s computers. Voyager 1’s flight data system (FDS), which collects onboard engineering information and data from […]
Some scientists think amino acids formed in space and reached Earth via asteroids or meteorites Mark Garlick/SPL/Alamy A key molecule for life may have formed in the cold, far-reaches of space, alongside budding stars and planets. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, making them vital for life on […]
About 46 years after NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched on an epic journey to explore space, the probes’ antique hardware continues to receive tweaks from afar. One update, a software fix, ought to tend to the corrupted data that Voyager 1 began transmitting last year, and another set […]
A new trailer from Gamera Games came out of Tokyo Game Show this week, showing off a new look at combat gameplay in Youthcat Studio’s interstellar factory-builder and giving a release date: December 2023 will be when the Rise of the Dark Fog update releases for free to all owners […]
A microscopic image of a metal sphere that some scientists argue came from an interstellar object Interstellar Expedition Tiny metal spheres found on the seafloor may have come from an interstellar meteor. The researchers that recovered the spherules say that their compositions don’t match anything ever seen before on Earth […]