In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, during a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, two spacecraft that would travel farther than any human-made objects had ever gone. Meant to explore the outer planets and carry Earth’s story into ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct.

In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible ...

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light ...