Voyager 1 is more than 14 billion miles from Earth. It launched from Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 5, 1977, arrived at Jupiter in 1979 and reached Saturn in 1980. And then it just kept going. By ...

For weeks, a team of JPL Voyager mission engineers have been receiving gibberish from the venerable Voyager 1, 15 billion miles away from Earth. But amid the concern, promising signs have emerged.

As with much of the Voyager team nowadays, Kareem Badaruddin, a 30-year veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), divides his time between the twin Voyager spacecraft and other flight ...

Both Voyager probes have outlived their original missions and are exploring interstellar space more than 45 years after launch. The mission team has made clever decisions to manage the power ...

Voyager 1, along with its sister craft, Voyager 2, are robotic probes that were launched in 1977. Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in 2012. It's now 15.1 billion miles away, the farthest from ...

Suzanne Dodd, program manager for Voyager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), likens the task to caring for aging grandparents. “Every year it’s a little more difficult,” she says.

For weeks, a team of JPL Voyager mission engineers have been receiving gibberish from the venerable Voyager 1, 15 billion miles away from Earth. But amid the concern, promising signs have emerged.