The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

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 ...

Note: *Starred instruments (below) are still working on one or both of the Voyager spacecraft. The others have malfunctioned or been turned off to save power. The HGA, a 12.1-foot reflector dish ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of scientific data from uncharted territory for the first time since ...

Ones and zeros. That’s the love language of computers. It’s how NASA’s long-lived Voyager 1 spacecraft communicates with its team back on Earth. Voyager 1 is still talking to NASA ...

PASADENA, Calif. – NASA says it has reestablished communication with its Voyager 1 spacecraft after a brief outage from more than 15 billion miles away from Earth. The spacecraft, launched from Cape ...

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The ...

The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual suspects jumped to the usual conclusions — aliens!! — in the absence ...

It's been more than 47 years since NASA sent two historic space probes—Voyager 1 and 2—out into the universe, and, against all odds, they're still going. Their journeys have been nothing short ...

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 ...

At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space, Voyager 1 won't last much longer. In fact, NASA's flight engineers may have thought the 47-year-old mission had finally kicked the ...

PASADENA, Calif. – NASA says it has reestablished communication with its Voyager 1 spacecraft after a brief outage from more than 15 billion miles away from Earth. The spacecraft, launched from ...