NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

a former Bell Labs planetary scientist who did the calibrations for the Voyager 1 spacecraft and was a principal investigator on many experiments. He told me that a NASA manager in the 1970s had ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...

NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from almost 16 billion miles away. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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 ...

That was the message relieved NASA officials shared after the agency regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists have ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA can’t catch a break when it comes to Voyager 1, apparently. That’s because the ...

Last month, on October 19, Voyager 1 stopped sending signals back to Earth, sparking confusion amongst scientists. NASA managed to reconnect to the probe on October 24 using a radio not used since ...

The problem stemmed from a corrupted chip in one of the spacecraft's computers. After more than five months without contact, NASA has finally reconnected with Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft ...

NASA engineers say they've fixed a problem that had temporarily halted all but basic communications with Voyager 1, the longest-operating spacecraft in history. As a result of their efforts and ...