For the first time since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to ...

The Voyager engineering team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) finally has some good news about the aging spacecraft. Voyager 1 has been unable to send usable data back to Earth since last ...

Nearly half a century after it left Earth, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled so far that a radio message sent to it now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 are the only human-made objects to reach interstellar space. The two probes launched in 1977 and may soon ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, which it entered in 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech HOUSTON—The NASA Voyager 1’s mission ...

NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft, launched in the 1970s, have passed beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, making them the most distant man-made objects to exist in the universe. However ...

On November 18, 2026, Voyager 1 will cross a milestone no machine has ever reached: it will sit a full light-day from Earth. From that distance, a command traveling at the speed of light needs 24 ...

Voyager 1 has taken to improvising in its old age, making it very difficult to understand what it has to say. The probe has sent back a steady flow of gibberish since November, worrying scientists ...

After many tense months, it seems that thanks to a gaggle of brilliant engineering talent and a lucky break the Voyager 1 spacecraft is once more back in action. Confirmation came on April 20th, when ...