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

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

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been flying for almost 50 years, far surpassing even the wildest dreams of its designers. The ...

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

Voyager 1, but that probe's faster trajectory meant that it was in "the space between the stars" six years before Voyager 2. The news was revealed at the American Geophysical Union (AGU ...

After almost five decades sailing through space, NASA is trying to squeeze a few more years out of the venerable Voyager 1 ...

On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to planet Jupiter and points beyond. Voyager 2 launched a few weeks earlier, on August 20 ...

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 ...

As Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, have aged, the mission team has slowly turned off nonessential systems on both spacecraft to conserve power, including heaters. As a result, components ...

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, launched on their initial missions in 1977 to study the distant solar system. They collectively flew by four largest outer solar system planets by 1989 and ...