Laser on NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away

Late last year, NASA scientists pressed the start of a long-awaited space mission. In short, they launched a spacecraft towards an asteroid that could very well be made entirely of metal, a composition that appears to be a rarity – at least in the vicinity of our solar system. The robot adventurer is called Psyche … Read more

Voyager 1 returns data to Earth for the first time in five months

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after coming up with a creative solution to solve a communications problem aboard humanity’s farthest spacecraft in the cosmos. … Read more

Voyager 1 returns data to Earth for the first time in five months

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after coming up with a creative solution to solve a communications problem aboard humanity’s farthest spacecraft in the cosmos. … Read more