NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for future lunar missions.

NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Meanwhile, Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument ... the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Instruments necessary for ...

A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw the same thing in 2007 ... A trillion frigid objects orbit the Sun beyond Pluto and the helio­sphere, in the Oort cloud of comets. Although no one knows for sure ...

A side effect of upgrades to an Earth-based antenna that sends commands to Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, the communications ... that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto.