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Voyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:20:22 GMTIn 1977, Carl Sagan and Frank Drake sat in a Cornell office arguing over what to put on the Voyager Golden Record, and among the greetings in 55 languages, the whale song, and the Bach they included the sound of a young woman's brainwaves recorded w - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:56:30 GMTVoyager 2 may have caught Uranus on a freak day — a 2024 reanalysis suggests the 1986 flyby that shaped four decades of understanding arrived during a compressed state estimated to occur only about 4% of the time - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:15:15 GMTNASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMTA six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar space on Voyager's Golden Record, and he was not chosen at random — Carl Sagan's son Nick said: "Hello from the children of planet Earth." - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:00:52 GMTAfter twelve years and more than seven billion kilometres, Voyager 2 arrived at Neptune within 100 kilometres of where it had been aimed — a margin NASA compares to sinking a golf putt 3,630 kilometres long - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:30:39 GMTThe Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, crossed into interstellar space in 2012 — but it will still take many thousands of years to exit the Oort Cloud, meaning it has technically left the solar system and is nowhere near leaving the solar system at the same time - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:30:00 GMTNASA engineers working to extend the Voyager missions cannot physically touch the spacecraft, cannot send a replacement part, and must wait nearly 24 hours for every command to arrive — and another 24 hours for the reply — yet they just bought Voyager - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:30:00 GMT