On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in ...

In a remarkable feat of engineering, NASA has re-established contact with Voyager 1, the intrepid spacecraft that has ...

An unpublished NASA memo reportedly warns of a change in how the space agency awards contracts to build private space ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has detected an unexpected hot and energetic \"firewall\" just beyond the heliopause, ...

This spacecraft was the farthest human-made object from Earth, and it will reach the Oort Cloud, a hypothetical region in ...

Until then, Voyager 2 and NASA won’t be in contact, and Earth won’t be receiving any data from the probe — but the folks on Earth will keep trying to get a connection, Dodd said. In the ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to extend them ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep ...

Voyager 1 has lived long because, although its technology is aging, it still stands in resilience to show forth NASA’s prescience and inventiveness. The recent communication difficulties only ...

On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this ...