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After five months of glitching, the venerable space probe contacted Earth and is continuing its interstellar mission billions of kilometers away.

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Researchers have gained a new view of the journey ahead for the twin Voyager spacecraft and other probes bound on one-way trips into interstellar space

NASAs Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is back to normal operations after controllers successfully reset its computer March 2, NASA said.

The IBEX spacecraft, in space since 2008, stopped responding to commands last month, requiring the reset.

Theres much ado about the moon this week, and a ton of launches scheduled for March. But well start today with news from Washington State of a very cool new way to manage space dust.

NASAs Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reset its flight computer Feb. 18 and has been unresponsive to commands ever since, agency officials said Friday (Feb. 24).

The heliopause, or the boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium, appears to be rippling and creating oblique angles in an unexpected manner.

After more delays and problems, we're calling it: The corollary of "it's five o'clock somewhere" appears to be "it's always Monday in space."

The bubble of space encasing the Solar System might be wrinkled, at least sometimes. Data from a spacecraft orbiting Earth has revealed ripple structures in the termination shock and heliopause: shifting regions of space that mark one of the...