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 ...

JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data ...

Late last week, NASA revealed that it had lost contact with Voyager 2 after it was discovered that errant computer commands severed contact with the probe, which was launched in 1977 on a mission to ...

Nearly two weeks after NASA lost contact with one of its Voyager probes, the space agency said it has detected a faint signal from the historic spacecraft launched in the 1970s to explore the far ...

An illustration depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. - NASA/JPL-Caltech The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending ...

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 ...

The Voyager proof test model, shown in a space simulator chamber at JPL in 1976, was a replica of the twin Voyager space probes that launched in 1977. The model’s scan platform stretches to the right, ...