Last November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft began sending gibberish radio signals back to Earth. Engineers have now identified the problem, but trying to repair a 46-year-old device on a craft 24 billion kilometres from Earth is not easy. Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 were both launched in 1977 on a reconnaissance mission to … Read more
NEW DELHI: The solar system housing Earth and its fellow planets has shown remarkable stability throughout its 4.5 billion-year history. However, new research on “twin” stars indicates that this stability is not universal across all planetary systems.As per a Reuters report, researchers analyzed 91 star pairs from the same birth cloud, sharing similar sizes and … Read more
On February 29, 2024, the mighty Sun and Saturn will unite in deep conjunction in the sign of Aquarius, creating a potent energy that will reverberate throughout our lives. Whenever the Sun and Saturn are so close to each other, they bring about profound shifts and transformations in various walks of our lives. Let us … Read more
At 30 years old, Michelle Kunimoto already has more than 3,000 planet candidates under her belt. Inspired by science fiction and curiosity, the University of British Columbia astronomy graduate is passionate about searching for exoplanets — bodies orbiting stars outside our own solar system. She’s currently leading a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hunting for them. … Read more
