The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles ...

Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) is the titular extraterrestrial of Resident Alien (streaming now on Peacock) and he’s all alone (aside from a couple notable exceptions) on our planet. In the Season 2 ...

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that sounds more like science fiction than plasma physics: a blisteringly hot ...

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

After working for five months to re-establish communication with the farthest-flung human-made object in existence, NASA announced this week that the Voyager 1 probe had finally phoned home. For the ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...

Voyager 1’s long, unsettling silence has finally been broken, but not with the clean engineering data mission controllers had hoped for. After months of corrupted signals and dead air, the most ...

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 ...

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of ...

The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles ...