Voyager

Both Voyager spacecraft are now in inrerstellar space.

NASA hopes they will continue to function for 10 more years.

Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe is predicting a major announcement about ET life will be made early next year.

Last year, of course, she made the same prediction for 2018, and, so far, it hasn't happened.

Chang'e 4

China successfully launched its Chang'e 4 mission yesterday.

The mission aims to execute the first landing on the far side of the Moon.

Helium Tail

Astronomers have found a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small star 163 light years away.  The world sports a  huge tail of helium.

The world was observed using a ground-based telescope.

Apollo 17

Today is the 46th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17.

It remains the latest time humans ventured beyond low Earth orbit.

Third Boost

SpaceX successfully launched 64 satellites this week on a booster that had been used twice before.

It's another step forward.

Bennu

The OSIRIS-Rex probe is now at asteroid Bennu, settling in for a nearly two year study.

Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid roughly the length of the Empire State Building.