Voyager 2’s mission team was able to detect a signal from the spacecraft confirming it’s still operating as normal after an errant command caused a loss of contact.

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

NASA sent a radio signal to Voyager 2, located billions of miles away in interstellar space, and restored communications with the spacecraft after an errant command caused a blackout.

Today, Voyager 1 is 159 astronomical units from home, and Voyager 2 is at 133 AU, traveling in a different direction. (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and sun, or about 93 million miles.) ...

Voyager 1 is currently 14.6 billion miles from home, and Voyager 2 is 12.1 billion miles away, but for perspective, ... which flew by Pluto in 2015, offered another chance.

They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft, launched in the 1970s, have passed beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, making them the most distant man-made objects to exist in the universe.

According to the NASA Heliophysics program, the heliosphere-a protective bubble created by the Sun's solar wind-extends well past Pluto's orbit ... like the Canary Islands' Currently, Voyager 1 and ...

Voyager 2 passed Uranus on January 24, 1986, and Neptune on August 25, 1989. Then, like Voyager 1, it was on its way to interstellar space. Both spacecraft continued to send back data to Earth.

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft's mode of communication to one using less power.

V oyager 1 – and its sibling, Voyager 2 – were always meant to be a testament to humanity’s ingenuity. When they left Earth in the summer of 1977, they did so carrying a record that was ...