If aliens ever snag one of our interstellar envoys ... the Apollo Guidance Computers of the late 1960s were built around resistor-transistor logic (RTL) chips for this reason, even after ...
"Interstellar flight requires us to collect ... They also need to do more computer modeling studies to better understand the beam's behavior and how it might be initiated, and then space-based ...
"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss the opportunity." In 2017, scientists spotted our solar system's first ...
Credit: University of Western Ontario Gregg, a Ph.D. candidate in physics and astronomy, developed a computer model to study our solar system, Alpha Centauri and the interstellar activity—the ...
To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) deactivated Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Feb. 25. On March 24 ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...