On April 17, 2026, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a command across 15 billion miles of space to shut down one of Voyager 1’s last working science instruments. About 23 hours later, the signal ...

To keep Voyager 2 chugging along on its journey at the edge of the sun’s domain—and collecting invaluable data—NASA recently made a daring fix dubbed the “big bang.” In July, scientists turned off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are preparing for an interstellar rescue of humanity's most distant spacecraft, Voyager 1, after fixing up its twin ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the big bang, pushing observations deeper into the universe's earliest period ...

The robotic probe looked at the afterglow from the Big Bang, the energetic event scientists believe gave birth to the universe some 13.7 billion years ago, and managed to discern unprecedented detail ...

Nshan Kazaryan, the NASA engineer responsible for communicating with the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, is younger than the spacecraft he talks to. At 25, Kazaryan is among a new generation of ...

The effort was nicknamed the “Big Bang” by scientists with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked to turn off certain powered devices and substitute them with lower-power alternatives while ...

The young universe may have become chemically enriched far earlier than astronomers once believed. Observations from NASA’s ...