The probe entered a region beyond the heliopause, where temperatures are incredibly high, and continued to function despite all the hazards.

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 ...

Voyager 1 has been traveling through interstellar space for 48 years, but the recent signals it sent back have excited astronomers.

The iconic space probe Voyager 1 was the first man-made object to escape the solar system, traveling at a maximum speed of 38,000 mph for 35 years to accomplish the feat. The probe launched on Sept. 5 ...

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The 47-year-old ...

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 ...

And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went through a complete communication blackout; now, after weeks of quietness, ...

Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means ...

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 ...

Ed Stone has held a lot of jobs in the past 40 years, both at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech, but there’s one he’s not giving up: project scientist for the Voyager 1 and 2 space ...