When NASA launched Voyager in 1977, the spacecraft was built to work for about four years. Nearly five decades later it is still operating, more than 15 billion miles from Earth and the most distant ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is closing in on a distance milestone that puts the scale of deep-space communication into sharp ...

A software glitch is making NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft act a little bit haunted this Halloween season. On October 17, Voyager 1 switched its main radio transmitter to a different frequency, leaving ...

Joe is a freelance journalist. It all started with a long-running affection for building his own PCs, which he did for the first time as a teenager. It evolved into a lifelong enjoyment of putting ...

After almost 50 years in deep space, NASA's Voyager probes have more than their fair share of glitches. Still, it's worth it to keep these spacecraft operational—they are the only eyes we have outside ...

The Dwingeloo telescope, designed to observe signals at low frequencies, detected the farthest human spacecraft when it went dark earlier this year. Reading time 2 minutes Voyager 1 is currently ...

NASA's farthest spacecraft, Voyager 1, is running low on power but carries on its journey through interstellar space. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in ...

Voyager 1 can’t seem to catch a break. The interstellar traveler recently recovered from a thruster glitch that nearly ended its mission, and now NASA’s aging probe stopped sending data to ground ...

NASA can't catch a break when it comes to Voyager 1, apparently. That's because the US space agency has now revealed that the only thing keeping Voyager 1 communications running at the moment is a ...

Why it matters: Since 2007, The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) has provided researchers with the ability to collect astronomical data and search for signs of extraterrestrial life. Earlier this year, the ...