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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
Voyager 1’s Long-Dead Thrusters Fire Again After 20 Years – Just in Time
Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...
NASA 'cleanrooms' found crawling with 26 new bacterial species
A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.
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Martian rock looks like a nest of spider eggs
Perseverance discovers egg-like spherules in a Mars rock, now NASA is forming a strategy to investigate this in more detail.
Gravity study shows why the moon's two sides look so different
An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why ...
26 Unidentified Bacterial Species Detected in NASA Cleanroom
Seven of the new strains were cultured during the assembly of the Phoenix mission that landed on the surface of Mars.
Tough microbes found in NASA cleanrooms hold clues to space survival and biotech
A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia has ...
NASA Just Found the Moon Is Uneven—What We Know So Far
The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.