That was the message relieved NASA officials shared after the agency regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists have ...

24 disc-shaped plaques along the trail offer career and mission highlights while evoking the Golden Record aboard both spacecraft. Launched in the summer of 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 have since ...

The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away from Earth. The spacecraft has been exploring the outer regions of the solar system, but it is recently ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not ...

NASA's historic Voyager 2 probe is experiencing an unplanned "communications pause" after the space agency revealed that the spacecraft's antenna was inadvertently pointed into the wrong direction.

The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes launched 45 years ago, the first on Aug. 20, 1977 and the second on Sept. 5, and they are now the farthest human-made objects from Earth, at about three ...

One of the most iconic pieces of space exploration history is up for auction. When NASA’s twin Voyager probes lifted off ... follow-up to their work on the plaque aboard Pioneer 10.

“[Voyager] was designed with nearly everything redundant. Having two spacecraft — right there is a redundancy.” Just last month, the Voyager 1 probe experienced a problem with its thrusters ...