Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Voyager 1's own plasma science instrument stopped working correctly in 1980 and was turned off in 2007 to ...

Related Voyager 1 resumes sending readable status updates ... Science News // 3 days ago Germany's Spectrum rocket launch scrubbed, to be rescheduled March 24 (UPI) -- The first-ever launch ...

Spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have travelled to places in space where no other human-made objects have gone before, but their lives will end soon. The engineers at the US space agency, National ...

Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. From the highs of the 1970s and 1980s during their ...

Voyager 1, our most advanced spacecraft, sends signals to Earth for the fifth time in five months. The accomplishment is a testament to NASA engineers’ resourcefulness and persistence. Let’s dive ...

Voyager 1 and 2 have surprised us all with their longevity. When they were launched, their planned mission length was a mere five years. Now, almost 50 years after their launch date, they've both ...

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. However, both space probes are reaching the end of their service lives. NASA announced that ...

Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. In fact, due to this distance, it takes over 23 hours to get a radio signal from Earth to Voyager 1, and 19½ hours to Voyager 2.

Space technology is always one step ahead. With the rapid advances in this sector, drastic decisions have to be made with regard to some spacecraft. This has been the case with NASA's twin ...

The team hopes that if it takes action now, the robotic spacecraft could still be operating with at least one science instrument into the 2030s. Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem – a suite of three ...

Voyager 1 has been exploring space since its launch in 1977. It is now traveling through interstellar space, the region ...