Interstellar Frontier
Deep Space
The probes leaving the Solar System — and the space between the stars.
A handful of spacecraft are on one-way journeys out of the Solar System, still returning data decades after launch from distances where sunlight is a faint star and a radio round trip takes the better part of a day. They are humanity’s farthest reach, and our first physical contact with interstellar space.
Articles on Deep Space
MRN: The Moving Internet of Deep Space and the Personal Wi-Fi of Perseverance, Curiosity, and Other Rovers
Much different than your home internet, the Mars Relay Network (MRN) is an international constellation of five spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet that sends precious science data from surface rovers back to Earth.
Test Article — James Webb Discovers New Galaxy
Scientists using JWST have made a remarkable discovery in deep space.
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