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

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

After all, we still haven’t sent people past the Moon, a cosmic stone’s throw from home, and our fastest unmanned spacecraft, Voyager 1 ... the prevailing model of warp drive in 1994, and ...

Golden records onboard the two Voyager spacecraft carried Carter’s hopeful ... show the encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test Model at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The picture was ...

And it is Carter’s words that have been journeying aboard the Voyager probes ... the space agencies of Russia, Canada and Japan. The orbiting lab, completed in 2011, is still held as a model ...

NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with Voyager 1 and the spacecraft is operating normally ... “This implies that the virtual model that the team uses to calculate how much ...

Feature The Voyager ... thermal model, but it'll be a delicate balancing act. And, of course, the recent annealing attempt demonstrated the limitations of modeling and simulations on Earth. Does ...

A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The twin Voyagers have been flying since 1977 and are exploring the outer regions of our solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA engineers have ...

If the clogged thruster were healthy it would need to conduct about 40 of these short pulses per day. A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The twin Voyagers have been flying since 1977 and are ...