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, was ...

In the vastness of interstellar space, a small probe continues its silent drift, making history with every mile. Voyager 1, launched by NASA more than four decades ago, is on track to reach a ...

Despite this, NASA has been blessed by the Voyager spacecraft being insanely over-engineered. The people who built and launched it might all be dead or retired, the manuals literally turning yellow ...

Louis Armstrong performing "Melancholy Blues," Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, and panpipes from Peru are etched among the cacophony of Earth sounds on the gold-plated records attached to Voyager 1 ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went through a complete communication blackout; now, after weeks of quietness, ...

Voyager 1 and 2 are the first human-made objects in interstellar space, unveiling new findings. Voyagers' groundbreaking discoveries in the solar system exceeded NASA's original intentions.

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On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe into space with the aim of studying the outer planets. Voyager 1 launched a couple of weeks after Voyager 2, and both probes have flown to the ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration NASA engineers have ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power. When you purchase through links on ...