NASA’s Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause

Technicians wearing white clean room suits inspect wiring and instruments on a Voyager spacecraft featuring a large white dish antenna inside a dark testing facility.

The agency’s longest-running mission is approaching a historic distance milestone as its team members implement creative engineering solutions to keep it going. Full Story

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NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found

Called Teghaza 001, the rock is from a piece of Mars that formed more than 4.1 billion years ago. Full Story

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These doomed worlds were among the first and creepiest to be discovered as they orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. Pulsar planets like Poltergeist and its neighboring worlds, Phobetor and Draugr, are consumed with constant radiation from the star’s core. Nothing but the undead can subsist in this most inhospitable corner of the galaxy.

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Caltech Names Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as NASA JPL Deputy

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The emeritus NASA astronaut and retired Navy captain will be responsible for the strategic leadership, stewardship, and continuous improvement of laboratory operations. Full Story

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