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Thought to be lost 24 billion kilometers from Earth, this probe sent in 1977 has, against all odds,...
Dunwoody Crier· 7 hours agoIn a stellar example of resilience and innovation, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has re-emerged as a...
Nasa engineers bring Voyager 1 back to life after interstellar glitch
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNasa's Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually...
Where Is the Edge of the Solar System?
Scientific American· 9 hours agoTake, for example, the solar system. If you picture it in your head, you likely see the sun in the center and a retinue of planets orbiting it. At some...
NASA delivers Voyager software update across 15 billion miles of space
Government Executive· 6 days agoIn an April 22 press release, NASA announced that a team of experts had remotely repaired a computer problem in Voyager 1, a probe launched< ...
Inside NASA's 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in interstellar space
NBC Universal via AOL· 7 days agoAfter months of trying to reestablish communication with the Voyager 1 probe — the most distant...
How NASA Fixed Voyager 1 from 15 Billion Miles Away
Sci Fi Wire· 6 days agoWhen the crew of SYFY’s The Ark jumped a ship to Proxima centauri (the star next door), they embarked upon the longest journey humanity had ever taken,...
Scientists Plan for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study...
NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
Phys.org· 6 days agoNASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data ...
Against Cosmic Melancholia
National Catholic Register· 2 days agoOn Sept. 5, 1977, “Voyager 1,” built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Titan IIIE rocket.
NASA shows how it will talk to spacecraft over 15 billion miles away
Mashable· 2 days agoFor the first time, NASA's Deep Space Network — which communicates with the agency's legendary ...