Voyager 1 returns data to Earth for the first time in five months

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after coming up with a creative solution to solve a communications problem aboard humanity’s farthest spacecraft in the cosmos. … Read more

Voyager 1 returns data to Earth for the first time in five months

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after coming up with a creative solution to solve a communications problem aboard humanity’s farthest spacecraft in the cosmos. … Read more

‘Voyager 2 is still going well’

It’s been several months since one of humanity’s most accomplished spacecraft, the Voyager 1 probe, stopped talking to us — and while they remain somewhat hopeful, Voyager mission scientists are preparing for the worst: a farewell. “Sad and frustrated to see the spacecraft still operating, but muted,” Bruce Waggoner, the Voyager mission assurance manager, told … Read more