NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...

That the radio systems of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 worked at all while they were still in the main part of their planetary mission is a technical achievement worth celebrating. The fact that both ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less ...

The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Humanity’s farthest-flung emissary is speaking clearly again after a tense ...

It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating spacecraft in history. Both explorers are sending back valuable data on their interstellar ...

Voyager 1 left the heliosphere and reached interstellar space in August 2012 and is 15.5 billion miles away, and Voyager 2 − traveling slower and in a different direction − did the same in ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS.