Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

Engineers have determined why NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been transmitting gibberish for nearly five months, raising hopes of recovering humanity’s most distant spacecraft. Voyager 1, traveling ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Not bad for a 46-year-old spacecraft. NASA’s Voyager 1 is back in ...

In late 2026, NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft will reach an impressive milestone. The probe is set to become the first spacecraft to reach a distance of one light day from our planet. Voyager 1 is ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach one light-day from Earth in November 2026, emphasising the immense scale of ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...

Voyager 1 is one of humanity's greatest achievements in space travel. This spacecraft was launched by NASA in September 1977 on a one-way trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Originally, it ...

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of ...

A software glitch is making NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft act a little bit haunted this Halloween season. On October 17, Voyager 1 switched its main radio transmitter to a different frequency, leaving ...