The Trump administration is closing a historic NASA science office in the name of efficiency, but critics point out that the ...

With its sweeping tempo and ethereal melody, Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" waltz has become ...

the properties of materials aboard the Voyager spacecraft are somewhat of a mystery. So the idea of troubleshooting a thruster issue seemed riskier than switching to a backup system. That ...

NASA correspondent Tony Rice explains how the Voyager probes have served as a barometer for our knowledge of space.

This would have made timely intervention impossible. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 with the primary mission of exploring the outer planets of our solar system — but upon ...

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration NASA engineers have ...

This achievement highlights the ingenuity and problem-solving skills of the engineers keeping Voyager operational after nearly five decades. Despite the technical hurdles and the spacecraft's age ...

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 ...

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now traveling through interstellar space at around 35,000 mph (56,000 kph). This artist’s concept depicts one of the probes speeding away ...