The problem stemmed from a corrupted chip in one of the spacecraft's computers. After more than five months without contact, NASA has finally reconnected with Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now ...

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 ...

Working from more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers have solved a computer problem aboard Voyager 1, allowing the probe to send readable data five months ...

Our farthest-away spacecraft isn't finished yet. "After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made ...

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 ...

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 the twin ...