“[Voyager] was designed with nearly everything redundant. Having two spacecraft — right there is a redundancy.” Just last month, the Voyager 1 probe experienced a problem with its thrusters ...
For 38 years, the secrets of Uranus have remained just out of humanity’s reach. Now, however, a deep dive into data from NASA ...
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...
Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has ...
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It's been more than 47 years since NASA sent two historic space probes—Voyager 1 and 2—out into the universe, and, against all odds, they're still going. Their journeys have been nothing short ...
The spacecraft has inexplicably turned off one of its radio transmitters, likely because of an unidentified onboard issue.
NASA's farthest spacecraft, Voyager 1, is running low on power but carries on its journey through interstellar space. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth ...
The Voyager 2 probe may have passed by Uranus ... to the degree it was observed around 4 percent of the time. "If the spacecraft had arrived only a few days earlier, the upstream solar wind ...
Voyager 1 has been venturing deep into the interstellar space. But recently, this aging spacecraft encountered a silent challenge. After a brief silence, the distant spacecraft reached out to ...
Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles from Earth, making its way through interstellar space. Along its almost 50-year journey, the probe has seen more of the universe than we ever will. Now ...