Astronomy (RSS)

Dish in Canberra, Australia, deployed to find interstellar spacecraft after flight control pointed its antenna away from Earth Nasa is listening for any peep from Voyager 2 after it lost contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away. Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space, Voyager 2 has been out of touch ever since flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command more than a week ago that tilted its antenna away from Earth. The spacecraft’s antenna shifted a mere 2%, but it was enough to cut communications. Continue reading...