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

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

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In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

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 ...