Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. May 23, 2024, 11:53am EDT An illustration shows a Voyager spacecraft in ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...

Sagan, C. For future times and beings.--Drake, F. D. The foundations of the Voyager record.--Lomberg, J. Pictures of Earth.--Sagan, L. S. A Voyager's greetings ...

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity’s first interstellar probe ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.