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Artist's concept of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft against a field of stars; the dish antenna that must point at Earth is at center. Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Voyager 1 Reaches a Light-Day Nov. 18; Its Two-Day Silence Is Unexplained

The light-day changes a radio delay by about two minutes. The 48-hour silence in October, still unexplained, touches the thrusters that keep the antenna pointed at Earth.

Science  · 3 Nov 2026, 12:40  · Daniel Okafor