For nearly 50 years, NASA's Voyager 1 mission has competed for the title of deep space's little engine that could. Launched in 1977 along with its twin, Voyager 2, the spacecraft is now soaring ...

Voyager 1 is the farthest object made by humans. The Voyager 1 spacecraft sent a new signal that contains valuable data, which may save the aging probe. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

On Valentines Day in 1990, NASAs Voyager 1 captured the iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot image, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 ...

A scientific discovery that could transform the study of warp drive is now under wraps at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar space—got in touch on April 20 with usable data on its health and status. That’s a triumph after a glitch in November caused ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

After more than forty-six years all of us are likely to feel the wear of time, and Voyager 1 is no different. Following months of harrowing troubleshooting as the far-flung spacecraft stopped ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race." ...