Tag Archives: Space

[ad_1] Concerns have invaded the astronomical community this weekend when NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope was in safe mode – but NASA confirmed in a statement released yesterday (Oct. 8) …

[ad_1] The Hubble Space Telescope, April 25, 1990. (NASA via AP) Two of NASA's top space telescopes, Hubble and Kepler, are currently out of order – a sad, if not altogether surprising, …

[ad_1] The 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is temporarily out of service due to the failure of one of its gyroscopic pointing devices, but scientists say they are working on Plan B. Today, …

[ad_1] NASA suspended its scientific operations with the Hubble Space Telescope and put the observatory in "secure" mode while engineers solve the problems encountered with one of the three remaining gyroscopes of …

[ad_1] In terms of space exploration, nobody has yet defeated the Voyager missions. On October 5, NASA announced that its Voyager 2 aircraft was approaching the outer borders of our heliosphere and …

[ad_1] Graph illustrating the location of travelers 1 and 2Graphic: NASA / JPL-CalTech Six years ago, the Voyager 1 spacecraft informed scientists that it had become the first object created by humans …

[ad_1] More than six years after the Voyager 1 probe entered interstellar space, NASA said the Voyager 2 spacecraft was "showing an increase in cosmic rays coming from outside our solar system". …

[ad_1] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, famous for its brilliant images of the cosmos, has problems in orbit around the Earth. Friday, an important mechanism on the spaceship failed – a necessary tool …

[ad_1] TThe UN ambassador for space said that Winston Churchill was a racist responsible for "atrocities" and apologized for quoting the warlord in a tweet. Scott Kelly was criticized by anti-racist activists …

[ad_1] NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has been traveling in space for 41 years and is currently just under 11 billion kilometers from Earth, more than 118 times the distance between the Earth …