After five months of silence, NASA’s Voyager 1 is once again transmitting data from the edge of interstellar space. In an official update published by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on April ...

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 ...

On April 20, 2024, NASA's control room suddenly buzzed with excitement like a boiling pot! A group of scientists were so thrilled that they nearly knocked over the data models on the table. What was ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and now journeying through interstellar space at roughly 35,000 mph, has successfully reactivated a set of backup thrusters previously considered unusable ...

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, the ...

As with all aging bodies, clogged tubes form an increasing issue. So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from an aging rubber ...

NASA’s Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth, simply refuses to die. In a recent update, the space agency revealed that the little probe that could has once again sputtered back to life thanks ...