Before we get to our intriguing sound file, here's NASA's poetic explanation, which speaks of "unexpected gifts" and "violin strings": Voyager 1 does not have a working plasma sensor, so ...

The pauses represent the gaps in data as Voyager 1 hit some snags in beaming data back to Earth as it traveled farther and farther away into the cosmos. The presentation of measurements as sound ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

A performance of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube was beamed into space for an unusual audience over the ...