NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

Starstruck Billions of years ago, our Solar System may have had an incredibly close encounter with another passing star. As ...

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...

One of the Voyager 1 probe's engines has been successfully launched. It was actually out of order due to performance problems ...

According to NASA, this problem first cropped up in 2002 when engineers noticed the fuel tubes that route hydrazine fuel to ...

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...

NASA's Voyager 1 team tackled complex challenges by successfully switching to backup thrusters after the primary ones became clogged with silicon dioxide. The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay ...

Engineers needed to swap out the clogged thrusters on the spacecraft as it continues its journey through interstellar space.

At 47 years old, the mission keeps flying with a little help from its friends. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most ...

When Voyager 1 lifted off to space on September 5, 1977, no one expected that the probe would still be operating today. As a result of its exceptionally long-lived mission, Voyager 1 experiences ...