NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Nasa has reportedly picked up a ‘heartbeat’ signal from the Voyager 2 probe after it accidentally lost contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away from Earth.
Last month, the craft- which has been exploring the universe for 46 years- lost contact with the space agency after a wrong command resulted in its antenna pointing two degrees away from Earth.
Following the error, the probe stopped sending data or receiving commands from its location more than 12.3 billion miles away in interstellar space.
But on Tuesday, Nasa said a signal from Voyager 2 was picked up during a regular scan of the sky.