Author: Matthew Davis / Source: Big Think Eventually, humanity will want to travel to a new solar system to propagate the human race, explore, and maybe find signs of alien life. But our closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is so far away that current methods could take tens of thousands of

Author: Brett Molina / Source: USA TODAY Saturn is losing its signature rings at a “worst-case scenario” rate, said NASA scientists, and the bands could disappear completely within 100 million years. In a study published Monday in the journal “Icarus,” researchers confirmed Saturn’s rings are

Source: Spinal Cord Journal NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has crossed into interstellar space, joining its twin — Voyager 1 — which made the epochal passage in 2012. Both Voyagers now sail beyond the reach of the Sun’s influence, the heliosphere, as humanity’s most distant emissaries. Voyager 1 is

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network Voyager 1, which has become the longest continuously operating space mission ever, as well as the most distant manmade object, is celebrating 40 years of space exploration. Over the course of its trajectory, it has become the first spacecraft

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama NASA launched Voyager I and Voyager II in 1977, on a 12-year mission to study and send back data from Jupiter and Saturn. That was the stated mission, as that was all that the U.S. government was willing to fund. However, scientists and engineers at NASA