NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed a months-long effort to stretch the spacecraft’s diminishing power supply. Then, on Oct. 20, an unexpected loss of communication with the spacecraft resolved itself after 48 hours, before the team sent commands to the spacecraft to troubleshoot the issue.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says about 70% of the students who leave the state to go to college never return, so he's pushing legislation that would allow community colleges to offer four-year degrees at a discount.