Voyager 1’s original roll thrusters stopped working more than two decades ago after power was lost in two internal heaters, which means the spacecraft has been relying on the backup roll ...

As Voyager 2 crosses into the mysterious boundary of interstellar space, it has encountered something scientists are calling ...

Whoops. NASA accidentally sent commands to Voyager 2 that cut off communications with the probe by pointing its antenna the wrong way. The satellite is programmed to reset its orientation multiple ...

NASA's Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth, simply refuses to die. In a press release, the space agency revealed that the little probe that could has once again sputtered back to life ...

In 2023, Voyager 1 started sending gibberish from deep space, but that issue was resolved last year. Also in 2023, a glitch in Voyager 2 caused it to briefly turn its antenna away from Earth.

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 ...

What is Voyager 1? Currently located some 15.4 billion miles from our planet, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been pushing off into deep space since its launch on September 5, 1977.

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located ...

The RTG arrays offered Voyager 1 and 2 about 470 watts at 30 volts when they first launched. Given the plutonium’s 87.74-year half-life, they now operate on about two-thirds their original power.