The Voyager 1 spacecraft is functioning normally again after the aging probe’s dwindling power supply triggered a communications blackout. It’s one of several challenges faced by the spacecraft this year.

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981.

The two probes have left the solar system and are still collecting data from the interstellar environment—but their atomic hearts are growing weaker and weaker.

The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected at an unexpected radio frequency

T he iconic space probe Voyager 1 was the first manmade object to escape the solar system, traveling at a maximum speed of 38,000 MPH for 35 years to accomplish the feat. The prob

Unfortunately, it's also far fainter, and the crew feared that it could no longer be detected from this far away. After all, Voyager 1 hasn't used the S-band transmitter to talk to Earth since 1981, when it was obviously much, much closer to us.

The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is 15 billion miles away from Earth. It stopped sending data but NASA managed to get it restarted.