New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: Two galaxy ...

James Webb Space Telescope has delivered stunning views of the "gravitationally distorted realms" of the El Gordo galaxy cluster ... 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters ...

Voyager 1’s mission has already far exceeded expectations, and its continued journey through the universe offers unparalleled insight into the outermost regions of our galaxy. Voyager 1’s ...

But a recent "poke" sent to Voyager 1 as it travels 15.1 billion miles away from Earth has given engineers a reason for optimism when they received a response earlier in March. Mission control ...

Today is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, one of humanity’s iconic twin ... run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New analysis suggests collision with a neutron ...

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

By the mid-2030s, the spacecraft will no longer have enough power to operate its instruments or communicate with Earth, continuing its journey across the galaxy in silence. Technically, Voyager 1 ...

Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977, during the height of the space age. In the decades since, this unmanned spacecraft has ventured to the outer edges of our universe, sending back one-of-a-kind ...

A scrambled computer signal helped NASA engineers resume data transmission from the distant Voyager 1, a spacecraft that was launched in 1977 and now, 15 billion miles from home, is the farthest a ...

Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to explore interstellar space — the space between the stars in a galaxy — when it was 122 astronomical units (AU) away from the sun. (One AU is the ...