On the outside chance that we ever encounter a space probe from an alien civilization ... like one of the Voyager spacecraft, they’ll see that we sent them some really old school stuff.

After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The ...

The twin Voyager spacecraft ... when one of the antennas in its Deep Space Network is pointed at the spacecraft, about six hours per day for each probe. The data is then transferred from the ...

In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to ...

Now, all four science instruments on board the deep space probe can return usable data to our planet once again. Voyager 1 and its sibling, Voyager 2, are exploring a region of space never ...

Voyager 2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1, 16 days later. Both spacecraft carried TV cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, and photopolarimeters to ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 are the only probes to cross into interstellar space, but their outdated instruments can’t fully analyze the heliosphere’s boundaries. The heliosphere blocks cosmic ...

Related: Wow! Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit Both spacecraft will be traveling around 6,870 mph (11,050 kph) in orbit, requiring exquisite guidance ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that NASA's Voyager 2 probe began decades ago.

A design studio's proposal for a new collectible set seeks to "pin" down the pivotal probes from space exploration history ... to the public to pick out the probe for the fifth pin in the line.