Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's concept depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. - ...

The mission of one of NASA's twin Voyager space probes has been in peril for months as the space agency has been unable to receive usable data from the craft launched 46 years ago to explore the far ...

In 1990 a tiny speck of light captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft forever changed how humanity sees itself. Known as the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Not bad for a 46-year-old spacecraft. NASA’s Voyager 1 is back in ...

The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles ...

An illustration of one of the twin Voyager spacecraft, which rely on radioisotope thermoelectric generators to convert heat into electricity, in interstellar space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not used ...

In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science fiction: one full light-day from Earth. When Voyager 1 crosses that ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...

A software glitch is making NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft act a little bit haunted this Halloween season. On October 17, Voyager 1 switched its main radio transmitter to a different frequency, leaving ...