Voyager 1

Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43), a 230-foot-wide (70-meter-wide) radio antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, is seen in this

NASA's twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacecraft

"My team has turned off another science instrument."

Both spacecraft are running on two-thirds of their original power.

March 1, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Whether aliens could detect our modern civilization depends on what signs they're looking for—and, crucially, their distance from us

The "Pale Blue Dot" hasn't always been the most apt nickname.

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image is just as awe-inspiring today.

This week New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose published his annual "Good Tech" awards to "shine the spotlight on a few tech projects that I think contributed positively to humanity." And high on the list is "Andres Freund, and every open-source software maintainer saving us from doom."...

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Sunday's passing of President Jimmy Carter:

Carl Sagan defended sending rock 'n' roll into space.

"Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth," writes Gizmodo. And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager's signals on a 1950s telescope designed to detect weak, low-freq...

Extraterrestrials may be hiding somewhere we haven't looked: black holes.

Scientists in the UK have successfully created the world's first carbon-14 diamond battery, which could power low-energy devices like satellite communication equipment for over 5,000 ...

Main component had been switched off automatically when fault protection system was triggered

NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's main transmitter. Using Voyager's weaker backup transmitter, engineers are assessing the problem from 15 billion miles away.

Built by MIT researchers, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft took measurements for the last 47 years and 15 billion miles, before shutting down on Sept. 26.

With four instruments remaining, the spacecraft still could still last into the 2030's.

These three space-themed submissions on Lego Ideas have captured our attention, and deserve to be on store shelves.

It's more than 15 billion miles away in interstellar space.