NASA has confirmed that one of its greatest ever missions, Voyager 1, is back in business with communications restored ...

The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is 15 billion miles away from Earth. It stopped sending data but NASA managed to get it ...

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

The mission, launched in 1977, became the first spacecraft to cross the boundary of the solar system by venturing into ...

After a temporary communication breakdown last month, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal operations. The team ...

The switch caused NASA to lose contact with the far-flying probe for a few days in October.

“The flight team suspected that Voyager 1’s fault protection system was triggered twice more and that it turned off the ...

A Space.com report indicated that the issue arose when engineers instructed Voyager 1 to activate a heater for its ...

Unfortunately, it's also far fainter, and the crew feared that it could no longer be detected from this far away. After all, ...

As with much of the Voyager team nowadays, Kareem Badaruddin, a 30-year veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), divides his time between the twin Voyager spacecraft and other flight ...

A month and a half ago, NASA suddenly lost contact with Voyager 1. Now everything is working normally again and the cause has ...

Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively ...