NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, ...
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2, initially sent to explore the outer planets, ultimately became the first human-made objects to enter interstellar space. Currently, Voyager 1 is over 15 billion ...
In early January 2026, NASA awarded Voyager Technologies a renewed Create Hardware (HUNCH) program contract, extending the ...
Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the Sun’s influence ends and interstellar space begins. The probes, launched in ...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are breathing a tentative sigh of relief after receiving a signal from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The exploratory probe lost contact with its ...
Despite this, NASA has been blessed by the Voyager spacecraft being insanely over-engineered. The people who built and launched it might all be dead or retired, the manuals literally turning yellow ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration NASA engineers have ...