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Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ continues to surprise experts by waking up. He shared images from his last lunar ‘day’

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Japan’s “Lunar Sniper” lander has defied the odds for the third time and managed to survive another long, cold lunar night despite not being designed to withstand such harsh conditions, according to the Japan Aerospace… Read More »

Japan’s historic ‘Lunar Sniper’ mission wasn’t built to survive the lunar night. But he keeps waking up

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Japan’s “Lunar Sniper” lander has defied the odds for the third time and managed to survive another long, cold lunar night despite not being designed to withstand such harsh conditions, according to the Japan Aerospace… Read More »

NASA’s cosmic ‘nudge’ gets surprising response from Voyager 1

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Engineers sent a “nudge” to the Voyager 1 probe and received a potentially encouraging response as they hoped to solve a five-month-old communications problem on the aging spacecraft. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and its… Read More »

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission ends on Mars after damaging rotor blade

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission, which completed 72 historic flights on Mars in three years, has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity took off on April 19, 2021, becoming the first aircraft to operate and… Read More »

History-making Mars helicopter mission ends after three years

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission, which completed 72 historic flights on Mars in three years, has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity took off on April 19, 2021, becoming the first aircraft to operate and… Read More »

Voyager 1 stopped communicating with Earth

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft experienced a computer glitch that caused some communications disruption between the 46-year-old probe and the mission team on Earth. Engineers are currently trying to solve this problem as aging spacecraft explore… Read More »

Voyager 1 stopped communicating with Earth due to computer problem

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft experienced a computer glitch that caused some communications disruption between the 46-year-old probe and the mission team on Earth. Engineers are currently trying to solve this problem as aging spacecraft explore… Read More »