“To me, the Voyager Golden Record is a beautiful example of humanity and striving for world peace,” adds propulsion engineer ...

In the vast expanse of interstellar space, Voyager 1 continues its extraordinary journey, defying expectations and pushing ...

After more than forty-six years all of us are likely to feel the wear of time, and Voyager 1 is no different. Following months of harrowing troubleshooting as the far-flung spacecraft stopped ...

The iconic space probe Voyager 1 was the first man-made object to escape the solar system, traveling at a maximum speed of 38,000 mph for 35 years to accomplish the feat. The probe launched on Sept.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar space—got in touch on April 20 with usable data on its health and status. That’s a triumph after a glitch in November caused ...

While a nation honors President Jimmy Carter with a state funeral and days of ceremonies in Washington, D.C., and his home state of Georgia, somewhere billions of miles away in the cosmos Carter's ...

This was the first software update made to a spacecraft in interstellar space. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies ...

(CNN) – NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with the deep-space probe Voyager 1. The spacecraft is now operating normally. A dwindling power supply caused a weekslong blackout for ...

It was launched 16 days before its twin craft, Voyager 1, but that probe's faster trajectory meant that it was in "the space between the stars" six years before Voyager 2. The news was revealed at ...

Using the historic Dwingeloo radio telescope, amateur astronomers near a Dutch village of the same name have succeeded in briefly receiving signals from NASA's Voyager 1 space probe. This was made ...

In 2007, the DTR in Voyager 1 was shut down for good, not due to any issues with the unit, but because of the dwindling supply of power coming from the craft’s radioisotope thermal generators.

Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun. They reached ...