Ernest Shackleton's Last Ship, Quest, Discovered Off the Coast of Canada(smithsonianmag.com)

88 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 31 comments

Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair(smithsonianmag.com)

128 points by marban 2 years ago | 91 comments

19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were an Illusion(smithsonianmag.com)

57 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 37 comments

The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia(smithsonianmag.com)

153 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 142 comments

Butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic without stopping(smithsonianmag.com)

201 points by raybb 2 years ago | 75 comments

Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface(smithsonianmag.com)

477 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 125 comments

Smithsonian Magazine Smart News article presenting four new highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun's entire surface, each made of 25 combined shots.

Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments(space.com)

965 points by dev_tty01 2 years ago | 198 comments

Space.com news article reporting that NASA's Voyager 1 has resumed returning science data from all four instruments after a technical issue that began in November 2023.

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2(theregister.com)

425 points by belter 3 years ago | 397 comments

The Register article reporting that NASA accidentally pointed Voyager 2's antenna two degrees away from Earth, cutting off communication with the probe.

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year(space.com)

327 points by wglb 2 months ago | 72 comments

Space.com news article on how NASA made power changes so Voyager 2 can keep one of its last instruments running for another year.

Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth(cnn.com)

1188 points by my12parsecs 2 years ago | 580 comments

CNN news article reporting that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped sending usable data to Earth due to a computer issue.

NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2(jpl.nasa.gov)

393 points by mutant_glofish 3 years ago | 82 comments

NASA JPL mission update from July 2023 about a pause in communications with the Voyager 2 spacecraft, later updated with restored contact.

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder(techfixated.com)

656 points by speckx 7 months ago | 241 comments

Tech Fixated article about Voyager 1, launched in 1977, still operating with 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder for data storage.