NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat: switching the agency’s ancient Voyager 1 probe — the farthest human-made object in existence — to a different set of thrusters. The feat, heavily ...

One of the most expensive parts of any rocket launch is getting the rocket off the ground and into space. This part of the mission takes a massive amount of fuel and money to pull off. That's why ...

NASA confirmed the news of the ISS maneuver via its blog on March 6 and explained that the floating laboratory was at risk of colliding with a satellite that was later discovered to be a commercial ...

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If you tried to start a car that’s been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up ...

After almost five decades sailing through space, NASA is trying to squeeze a few more years out of the venerable Voyager 1 deep space probe by swapping a wonky thruster system for a disused secondary ...

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable feat ...

3I/ATLAS is the mysterious 'comet' that has gripped the world in the last few weeks. And it might really be an alien spacecraft new observations suggest. This comes as a series of baffling anomalies, ...