Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 1 has been venturing deep into the interstellar space. But recently, this aging spacecraft encountered a silent challenge.

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After crossing the boundary of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft began detecting changes scientists had ...

Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object ever — but recently it started sending data that looked like complete gibberish. Engineers traced the problem to aging hardware and corrupted telemetry, ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not used ...

The iconic space probe Voyager 1 was the first man-made object to escape the solar system, traveling at a maximum speed of 38,000 mph for 35 years to accomplish the feat. The probe launched on Sept. 5 ...

Voyager 1, which has traveled further from Earth than any other human-made object, has resumed contact after a brief period of silence. Last month, on October 19, Voyager 1 stopped sending signals ...

And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went through a complete communication blackout; now, after weeks of quietness, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

Voyager 1 can’t seem to catch a break. The interstellar traveler recently recovered from a thruster glitch that nearly ended its mission, and now NASA’s aging probe stopped sending data to ground ...

A software glitch is making NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft act a little bit haunted this Halloween season. On October 17, Voyager 1 switched its main radio transmitter to a different frequency, leaving ...