Launched nearly 50 years ago in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 on Wednesday, Nov. 18 will have traveled one light-day from Earth, which is more than 16 billion miles (25.9 billion kilometers). Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, and any light from Earth would take 24 hours to reach the spacecraft. NASA will highlight
NASA will welcome home the Expedition 74 crew during a public event at Space Center Houston following their return from a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud‑Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will share mission
A 28-year-old man got a little bit more than he bargained for after a life-saving brain surgery. Karl (last name withheld for privacy) sees features of his grey tabby cat, Luna, on the human faces he encounters throughout the day. He’ll see Luna’s almond-shaped eye sockets, enlarged pupils, or stripes on humans, if her face
The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mission 2 crew arranged photos around a boot print in the simulated Martian sand outside their habitat on Aug. 31, 2026. The crew recently exited their habitat on Saturday, Oct. 31, after 378 days of isolation in a facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Health
A poor sleep schedule doesn’t only affect your overall mood, energy levels, and long-term health. New evidence indicates that losing as little as one hour of rest may increase your chance of falling for an online scam by over 10 percent the following morning. Neurobiologists at the University of California, Irvine, laid out their findings
Industrial PhD programmes are increasingly being utilized in fields such as public engineering.Credit: Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Yifan Wang didn’t realize that his thesis would be the first of its kind when he started his PhD, although he knew it was likely to be more applied than most. By the beginning of his project in electrical engineering