Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

The covers contain explanatory diagrams with instructions for playing the record, and a pulsar map that provides information on how to locate Earth. The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was ...

They could even tell how long ago the Voyager spacecraft left Earth. Back before laptops and cell phones and Google Maps, Frank Drake created an elegant diagram that provides galactic directions ...

Sadly, we won’t be returning the favor. If aliens ever snag one of our interstellar envoys, like one of the Voyager spacecraft, they’ll see that we sent them some really old school stuff.

Nearly 50 years after they were first launched, Voyager 1 and 2 are still traveling around interstellar space — though they've faced some setbacks over the years. Now, NASA has announced that ...

Voyager 2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1, 16 days later. Both spacecraft carried TV cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, and photopolarimeters to ...

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings of Saturn. The spacecraft is now 124 times farther from the Sun than we are ...

NASA is set to shut down the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument on Voyager 2 as part of efforts to conserve power and extend the spacecraft's mission life. This instrument measures ions ...