Engineers have swapped three of Voyager 1’s devices for lower-power versions, buying time for its instruments weeks before the probe reaches one light-day from Earth.
Twin NASA satellites flying seconds apart through the polar cusp find that magnetic reconnection varies mostly from place to place, not from moment to moment.
Early images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have doubled the known long-lived members of Neptune’s trailing Trojan cloud, a group of icy bodies long lost against the Milky Way.
ESA’s Hera spacecraft has seen the asteroid Didymos and its small moon Dimorphos as two separate objects for the first time. It is the first step in a close investigation of the asteroid that NASA’s DART spacecraft knocked off course in 2022.
