Voyager 1’s long, unsettling silence has finally been broken, but not with the clean engineering data mission controllers had hoped for. After months of corrupted signals and dead air, the most ...
At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that sounds more like science fiction than plasma physics: a blisteringly hot ...
While the Voyager spacecraft are constantly traveling out of the Solar System, sometimes they are getting closer to Earth.
Voyager 1 spent the last 47 years hurtling in a straight line away from Earth, exploring the deepest reaches of space that humanity has ever ventured. However, NASA must carefully manage Voyager 1 as ...
Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.
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 ...
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Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has ...