NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

At a distance of approximately 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, Voyager 1 continues to push the boundaries of human exploration. At this distance, it takes almost a full day for a ...

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...

NASA can’t catch ... this issue persists or if the Voyager 1 team is able to get it sorted rather quickly. One thing is for sure, though: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both slowly dying ...

Related: NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles Engineers suspect that, during this period, Voyager 1's fault protection system triggered two more times. This forced the ...

The team eventually found Voyager 1's signal later that day. However, the next day (Oct. 19), communication with Voyager "appeared to stop entirely," according to NASA. Related: NASA shuts off Voyager ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection ... in 1977 when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets ...

The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods ... with Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, as well as other spacecraft exploring our solar ...

Voyager 1 has two radio transmitters. NASA's 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft ... Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, but because of a faster route it exited the asteroid belt earlier than ...