An artist's conception of a Voyager craft journeying through deep space. Nuclear fuel lasts a long time. But not forever. "Mission engineers have taken steps to avoid turning off a science instrument ...

JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct.

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Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel outside the solar system. Illustration: Caltech/NASA-JPL For more than 45 years, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos, crossing the ...

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 ...

NASA says it is once again able to get meaningful information back from the Voyager 1 probe, after months of troubleshooting a glitch that had this venerable spacecraft sending home messages that made ...