Venerable Voyager spacecraft prompts scientific debate

A malfunctioning instrument on NASA's venerable Voyager 1 has led to a debate about whether the spacecraft has reached a place near the edge of the solar system where interstellar space slows the solar wind. Two research papers published in the journal Nature Nov. 5 disagree about whether Voyager...

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