Even crippled, even without power, even without applause from the beings who first made it, Voyager 1 may yet make itself the ...

Nearly 50 years ago, NASA launched what would become its first interstellar spacecraft, and this year Voyager 1 is set to reach a huge milestone.

NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes ...

Sagan's team created the greatest puzzle of all time, which you can only solve if your species understands the basic nature ...

The new goal of the revamped program was to study the outer solar system and the interstellar medium beyond the sun’s ...

Nearly half a century ago, a spacecraft roughly the size of a small car set off from the Florida coast atop a rocket to begin what was supposed to be a five-year journey. This week, NASA announced it ...

The iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft celebrated its 35th birthday Monday (Aug. 20) in a milestone for NASA's longest-running mission ever. Voyager 2 launched in 1977 just 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1 ...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: We have ignition. We have a lift off. NADWORNY: Its mission was supposed to last five years. Today, it's the farthest man-made object ever, and it's running out of power. The ...

NASA has shut down one of the science instruments on board the iconic Voyager 1 space probe in an effort to extend the life of humanity's first interstellar vehicle. The decision was made as power ...

Voyager 1 was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System. On November 22, 2017, the probe was approximately 13 billion miles (21 billion ...

NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year in hibernation.

On April 17, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or ...