NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

In May 2025, NASA successfully reactivated a set of thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been dormant since 2004. This was a crucial step for scientists as the currently active thrusters, ...

Facing communication blackouts, failing engines, and the risk of explosion, NASA engineers executed a high-stakes fix on the ...

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

Seven of the new strains were cultured during the assembly of the Phoenix mission that landed on the surface of Mars.

In 1977, two similar spacecraft were launched from Cape Canaveral, in Florida. These were called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 2 was launched first, on 20 August, and Voyager 1 was launched a ...

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space ...

NASA has successfully reactivated the thrusters of Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft launched in 1977, after they were ...

This week, paleontologists reported finding new details in an Archaeopteryx fossil via CT scanning and UV light exposure.

The mysterious V’Ger was introduced to the audience in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) when the USS Enterprise crew, led by Captain James T.

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...