Voyager 1 briefly came back to life after a 'poke' from NASA, giving scientists hope for the 46-year-old probe

• NASA engineers may have found a clever trick to get Voyager 1 talking in ways engineers understand.
• The probe, showing its age, has been sending back garbled data since November. 
• Engineers sent a "poke" to the aged probe and received a surprising response. 

Voyager 1 has taken to improvising in its old age, making it very difficult to understand what it has to say.

The probe has sent back a steady flow of gibberish since November, worrying scientists trying to capture the final slivers of information from the 46-year-old spacecraft.