On Thursday a group of space enthusiasts announced that they had established two-way communication with the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3), a satellite launched in 1978 and used ...

The Pixar version of ISEE-3 would have more dramatic eyes. Mark Maxwell/ISEE-3 Reboot Project The sad conclusion to the story of NASA's little lost satellite ISEE-3 would make the perfect plot line ...

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An ambitious project to resuscitate an abandoned spacecraft finally met with success Thursday as citizen astro-engineers took control of the International Sun-Earth Explorer — originally launched in ...

An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters on Thursday for the first time in a generation. NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe, or ISEE-3, which the ...