As if NASA’s Voyager mission didn’t have enough firsts in its 36-year journey, what with sending the first spacecraft to Uranus, Neptune and, most recently, interstellar space! Now, it has another ...

Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has ...

Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity’s first interstellar probe ...

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NASA's farthest spacecraft, Voyager 1, is running low on power but carries on its journey through interstellar space. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in ...

An artist's conception of a Voyager craft journeying through deep space. Nuclear fuel lasts a long time. But not forever. "Mission engineers have taken steps to avoid turning off a science instrument ...

NASA's Voyager craft have ventured where no other human machines have ever gone — the space between the stars. But that comes with a cost. At some 15 and 12 billion miles away, Voyager 1 and 2 are ...

Vue d’artiste de Voyager 1, publiée le 4 septembre 2012, à l’occasion du 35ᵉ anniversaire du lancement de la sonde spatiale. NASA / AFP Quarante-sept ans et huit mois après son lancement, Voyager 1 ...

The Voyager 1 probe has been breaking barriers for 46 years, but this iconic spacecraft may be at the end of the cosmic road. NASA is still working to solve a computer glitch that appeared late last ...

It’s not every day that you get to update the firmware on a device that was produced in the 1970s, and rarely is said device well beyond the boundaries of our solar system. This is however exactly ...