It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...
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Looking Beyond Voyager 1 And 2

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...
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 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.
In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible ...
A faint sound described as a 'ghostly signal’ by global news was detected near Voyager 1. The spacecraft is currently far ...
Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...
The Harvard astrophysicist urges the research community to include technological artifacts in the training data set ...
Voyager 1 one light-day from Earth marks a historic 24-hour signal delay, revealing the future of deep space communication ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe will continue its almost half-century of service by delivering yet another milestone.
NASA's spacecraft is about to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light day from Earth.