An artist's illustration of the Voyager 2 probe, which has been exploring space for over 40 years (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

In what can only be described as an extraordinary engineering feat, NASA scientists have remotely fixed a software glitch on the Voyager 2 probe, which lies 11.5 billion miles away at the edge of a transitional region of space. Known as the heliosphere, it is a vast, bubble-like area that surrounds the Sun and the Solar System.