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.

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

The detection also confirms that Voyager 2 is still on its planned trajectory, which is what NASA scientists had hoped and expected when they announced contact had been lost on July 21.

Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (25 billion km) from Earth and Voyager 2 is 13 billion miles (21 billion km) away. That's so far that it can take almost two days for a radio signal to make the ...

That is saying something because Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA's longest-lived spacecraft ... engineers had to reference paper documents, memos, and blueprints to help understand the spacecraft's ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which has been probing the outer bounds of the solar system for over 45 years, is running out of power. But a new plan aims to keep its interstellar mission alive for ...

NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar exploring spacecraft located 12.8 billion miles from home. When you purchase ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection ... in 1977 when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets ...

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Nearly 50 years after they were first launched, Voyager 1 and 2 are still traveling around interstellar space — though they've faced some setbacks over the years. Now, NASA has announced that ...