They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

a former Bell Labs planetary scientist who did the calibrations for the Voyager 1 spacecraft and was a principal investigator on many experiments. He told me that a NASA manager in the 1970s had ...

NASA has revealed that they have sent a man-made machine further than they ever have before, and they said they made an odd ...

NASA experts have effectively resurrected ... reducing the risk of losing the mission entirely. The revival of Voyager 1’s primary thrusters is a powerful reminder of what human creativity ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not ...

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA can’t catch a break when it comes to Voyager 1, apparently. That’s because the ...

Last month, on October 19, Voyager 1 stopped sending signals back to Earth, sparking confusion amongst scientists. NASA managed to reconnect to the probe on October 24 using a radio not used since ...

NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from almost 16 billion miles away. The farthest human-made object, Voyager 1 ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...