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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a week after accidentally cutting off communications with the Voyager 2 probe, NASA officials heard a hopeful signal that may allow them to reestablish contact with the interstellar traveler ...

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, ...

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 ...