On the outside chance that we ever encounter a space probe from an alien ... If aliens ever snag one of our interstellar envoys, like one of the Voyager spacecraft, they’ll see that we sent ...

It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating spacecraft in history. Both explorers are sending back valuable data on their interstellar ...

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand ... the designated boundary between the solar system and interstellar space, are expected to fall silent around 2030, when the ...

The PLS was instrumental in determining in 2018 that Voyager 2 had in fact left the heliosphere and entered interstellar space. The PLS on Voyager 1 had already broken down in 1980 and was turned ...

NASA has turned off some of the probe’s instruments as it has aged, but it can still collect data on interstellar space. The spacecraft and its twin Voyager 2 launched in 1977 with the goal of ...

Now, they’re in interstellar space and the only spacecraft to operate ... “This year it forced the mission to turn off a science instrument on Voyager 2. But these probes have lasted so ...

Voyager 1 left the heliosphere and reached interstellar space in August 2012 and is 15.5 billion miles away, and Voyager 2 − traveling slower and in a different direction − did the same in ...

Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object traveling through interstellar space, encountered thruster problems, affecting its ability to stay oriented toward Earth for communication. Without a ...