A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space ...

Americium is one of the lesser-known synthetic elements, first created in 1944 during the Manhattan Project. The isotope of interest for space is americium-241. Its half-life is a staggering 432 years ...

After almost five decades sailing through space, NASA is trying to squeeze a few more years out of the venerable Voyager 1 deep space probe by swapping a wonky thruster system for a disused secondary ...

Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has ...

The deep-space probe is now sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments. The deep-space probe is now sending back data from all four of its scientific instruments. is a former ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

At 47 years old, the pair of Voyager probes are the oldest currently operational deep space mission, and in their time they have traveled all the way through our solar system and out into the ...

The aging infrastructure of the Deep Space Network is operating at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade. The latest ...