The 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is on the fritz again, and this time it may be critical.

As one engineer said, this is, by far, the most serious since Ive been project manager.

Here are our top science stories from this week.

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Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI) / Illustration:Caltech/NASA-JPL/ Image: Alex Gerilich/TU Dortmund / Image: Rich Graessle (AP) / Photo:Wikimedia Commons/ Photo:Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility/ Photo: NASA / Photo: Sholten Singer (AP) / Screenshot:YouTube

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