Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, and it is now so far away that talking to it is becoming painfully slow.

Voyager 1’s long silence and sudden return to form have been dramatic enough without any help from science-fiction headlines.

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. Mission specialists have tried to delay the ...

The mission of one of NASA's twin Voyager space probes has been in peril for months as the space agency has been unable to receive usable data from the craft launched 46 years ago to explore the far ...

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 used ...

When Voyager 2 made its historic flyby of Uranus in 1986, the spacecraft captured the best data humanity had gathered on the ...

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. Reading time 3 minutes The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space ...

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NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

It’s a critical time for companies competing to develop a commercial successor to the International Space Station. NASA is ...