From more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers last April began repairing a space probe that is headed to the constellation of Ophiucus, though it won't arrive for some 38,000 years. NASA ...

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

After working for five months to re-establish communication with the farthest-flung human-made object in existence, NASA announced this week that the Voyager 1 probe had finally phoned home. For the ...

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In a finding that’s as strange as it is fascinating, NASA’s Voyager 1 has entered a region just beyond the heliopause where temperatures skyrocket to an estimated 50,000°C, and yet—against all odds—it ...

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 ...

SPACE (KXAN) — One of only two spacecraft built by humans to have left our solar system is alive and kicking. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced April 22 that Voyager 1 is sending engineering ...

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 from ...

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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft made history in 2012 by entering interstellar space, leaving the planets and the solar wind behind But observations from the pioneering probe were puzzling with regard to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Voyager 1 was launched into space in 1977 and has been on a one-way journey ever since, pushing the boundaries of how far a machine built by ...

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