04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
... short. Its companion, V1, the only other human-made spacecraft to have ventured as far, passed over into interstellar space six years earlier in 2012 at a distance of 121.6 au (18.3 × 109 km). Voyager 2’s encounter with the boundary has long been...
04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... the Voyager 1 spacecraft after 37 years without use; quite a feat considering the frigid and hostile environment of interstellar space where the spacecraft is currently located. For the past three years, engineers have noticed that the...
11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
..., Voyager 2 crosses the protective bubble of the heliosphere surrounding the planets and ventures into the realm of interstellar space to join with its twin, Voyager 1. The trailblazing spacecraft is now slightly more than 18 billion kilometers...
21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
... its dark surface is now reddened due to the effects of irradiation from cosmic rays as it has been traversing interstellar space. In fact our Solar System could be the first star system that `Oumuamua has closely encountered since...
04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
... setting off a chain-reaction of events that could result in our Solar System being kicked out into interstellar space. The Milky Way, like many galaxies of its size, is surrounded by a number of smaller satellite galaxies that generally...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
...all fundamental constituents of life are present not only on many smaller celestial bodies, but also in interstellar space. The scientific search for extraterrestrial life, known as astrobiology, has developed recently into an important international...
