Voyager 2 goes into semi-retirement. Another device switched off

NASA has announced that it has switched off another scientific instrument on board the Voyager 2 probe to save energy and thus prolong the mission, one of the longest ever: this is the Plasma Science Instrument (PSI), the device that for 47 years has measured the flow of plasma (formed by electrically charged atoms) […]
Plato's eyes ready to search for life in Space

Centuries ago, the great philosopher Plato imagined a distant world similar to ours, the hyperuranium, where the world of ideas represented the original of our world of things. Perhaps this is why Plato has been named Plato (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), the new European mission that searches for Earth-like planets and [...]