In honor of NASA's Voyager 1 probe's 40th anniversary today (Aug. 5), William Shatner helped send a special message to the distant spacecraft, selected by popular vote. During a news conference on the ...

After 5 months of electronic aphasia, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft can communicate intelligibly again, thanks to a clever programming fix from its engineers. The Voyager 1 team received a clear message ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977, have identified a high-temperature region beyond the edge of the solar system. Scientists are now studying this area, nicknamed the ...

(CNN) — The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods — after a technical issue caused a days-long communications blackout with the historic mission, which ...

The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles ...

Sotheby's is now featuring another iconic item in its auction that will soon be available for bidding, and it is none other than the first intergalactic message meant for extraterrestrial life, the ...

NASA's Voyager spacecraft zoomed by our solar system's planets decades ago and are now traveling through interstellar space, ultimate destination unknown. The Voyagers' nuclear power supply (Plutonium ...

NASA engineers have completed a promising round of tech support on the Voyager 1 space probe, correcting an issue with one of its computers and moving it closer to being ready to transmit science data ...

Humanity wants so desperately to be besties with aliens. If they’re out there (and it seems impossible that they’re not) then we just want to be invited to the intergalactic party, already. SYFY’s own ...