Back in 2010, Voyager 2 began transmitting gibberish back to Earth. Scientists still don't know exactly what went down, but Cummings suspects cosmic rays were again the culprit because ...
Voyager 1 – and its sibling, Voyager 2 – were always meant to be a testament to humanity’s ingenuity. When they left Earth in the summer of 1977, they did so carrying a record that was ...
The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data. It takes 22 1/2 hours to send a signal to Voyager 1, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometres) away in interstellar ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a journalist specializing in the quirky side of science and space. Humanity’s farthest-flung emissary is speaking clearly again ...
Voyager 1′s odyssey began in 1977 when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets of the solar system. After beaming back dazzling postcard views of ...
In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to ...
the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 2, which is operating normally, has traveled more than 12.6 billion miles (20.3 billion ...
The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between the stars). Voyager 2 continues to operate normally, NASA reports. Launched more ...
Messages sent from Earth take about 22.5 hours to reach the spacecraft. Its twin, Voyager 2, also left the solar system in 2018. Both Voyager spacecraft carry "Golden Records" -- 12-inch ...