This close-up view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1. It shows the great red spot—an anticyclone three and a half times the size of Earth, as well as the clouds swirling around it. The image was ...

Mission control on Earth receives that data in binary code, or a series of ones and zeroes. But since November, Voyager 1’s flight data system had been stuck in a loop. While the probe has ...

After more than five months without contact, NASA has finally reconnected with Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from Earth. NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) said Voyager 1 had not been sending ...

SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...

Voyager 1 is almost 13 billion miles away. Its signal takes more than 19 hours to reach Earth, and the power of that signal is less than 1 trillionth of a watt when it hits the DSN. The RSS used ...

Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently exploring where nothing from Earth has ever flown before. Launched in 1977, it's now on a mission to go as far away from the solar system as possible ...

are still continuously transmitting data back to Earth. Launched in 1977 to study the large outer planets, Voyager 1 and 2 are now, respectively, more than 13 billion and 11 billion miles from ...

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977 ... In the past, dense clouds might have so squeezed the heliosphere that even Earth sat outside the shield, exposed to cosmic rays that may have helped ...

The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual suspects ... with those of us back on Earth, and this despite having ...