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NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four Earth-orbiting satellites with the goal of studying how the Sun’s activity ...

In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus ...

A team of Italian astronomers discovered a fossil galaxy estimated to be 3 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant spectacle of its kind outside of the local universe. Dubbed ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that ...

In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science fiction: one full light-day from Earth. When Voyager 1 crosses that ...