[PJ Harvey] announces ‘Voyager’, her first new music following the release of I Inside the Old Year Dying in 2023. Listen and watch the video, and pre-order the limited edition […]
Voyager 1
Posted inImaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Space Weather & Heliophysics, Stellar Cartography
Interstellar Spacecraft Voyager 1 Instrument Shut Down to Assure Continued Mission Operations
On April 17 2026, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, […]
Posted inImaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Press Release, Uranus, Venus
Pale Blue Dot Anniversary
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Earth appears as a tiny speck of light suspended in a […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Comets and Asteroids, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Intelligence & Language, Interstellar, SETI & Technosignatures, Status Report
Breakthrough Listen Observations Of 3I/ATLAS With The Green Bank Telescope at 1-12 GHz
3I/ATLAS (also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and, formerly, A11pl3Z) is the third interstellar object (ISO), following 1I/‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, to be discovered during a passage through the Solar System. The […]
Posted inInterstellar, Missions & Hardware, Press Release
Voyager 1 Interstellar Probe Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the thrusters […]
Posted inInterstellar, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs
Both Voyager Interstellar Probes Shut Instruments Off To Save Power
The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Jupiter, Neptune, Press Release, Saturn, Uranus
Hubble Celebrates A Decade Of Tracking Outer Planets
Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin […]
Posted inInterstellar, Missions & Hardware, Status Report, Tricorders & Sensors
Voyager 1 Interstellar Mission Resumes Regular Operations
NASA’s Voyager 1 has resumed regular operations 1 following a pause in communication last month. The probe had unexpectedly turned off its primary radio transmitter, called an X-band transmitter, and […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Analog Studies, Astrogeology, Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report
The Pale Blue Dot: Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to Simulate Signals from Hyper Realistic Exo-Earths
The atmospheres and surfaces of planets show tremendous amount of spatial variation, which has a direct effect on the spectrum of the object, even if this may not be spatially […]
Posted inInterstellar, Missions & Hardware, Status Report
Communications Issues Resolved With Voyager 1 Interstellar Probe
On Oct. 24, NASA reconnected with the Voyager 1 spacecraft after a brief pause in communications. The spacecraft recently turned off one of its two radio transmitters, and the team […]