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

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

Voyager 1’s long silence and sudden return to form have been dramatic enough without any help from science-fiction headlines.

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

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. Mission specialists have tried to delay the ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not used ...

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

An artist's conception of a Voyager craft journeying through deep space. Nuclear fuel lasts a long time. But not forever. "Mission engineers have taken steps to avoid turning off a science instrument ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. Reading time 3 minutes The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are breathing a tentative sigh of relief after receiving a signal from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The exploratory probe lost contact with its ...

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...