Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most ...

NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with Voyager 1 and the spacecraft is operating normally after its dwindling power supply caused a weekslong blackout. The issue began in October when ...

The farthest man-made object in space had been feared lost forever after a computer problem in November effectively rendered the 46-year-old probe useless. By Orlando Mayorquín Several months after a ...

In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science fiction: one full light-day from Earth. When Voyager 1 crosses that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Voyager 1 was launched into space in 1977 and has been on a one-way journey ever since, pushing the boundaries of how far a machine built by ...

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Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...