It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

The first spacecraft to ever leave our heliosphere, Voyager 1 is a legendary spacecraft. Now, after 46 years, it is beginning to show its age. According to NASA, a glitch in the spacecraft’s Flight ...

Voyager 1, located 15.1 billion miles from Earth, is transmitting anomalous, repeating binary data from its flight data system (FDS). NASA's attempts to resolve the issue, including a system reboot, ...

The iconic satellite was launched in 1977 and is since been exploring interstellar space, sending radio signals back to Earth from its distant position of 12.3 billion miles away. On July 21, the ...

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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 ...

Why it matters: Since 2007, The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) has provided researchers with the ability to collect astronomical data and search for signs of extraterrestrial life. Earlier this year, the ...

Amid a national craze about UFOs flying among us, NASA engineers at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory picked up the signal of a more homegrown spacecraft this week. After losing signal with the ...