Engineers have determined why NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been transmitting gibberish for nearly five months, raising hopes of recovering humanity’s most distant spacecraft. Voyager 1, traveling ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Not bad for a 46-year-old spacecraft. NASA’s Voyager 1 is back in ...

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 ...

On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

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