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 ...
Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.
That remains just one of the many achievements in Voyager 1’s illustrious resume, the spacecraft currently 15.79 billion ...
In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe will continue its almost half-century of service by delivering yet another milestone.
Voyager 1 one light-day from Earth marks a historic 24-hour signal delay, revealing the future of deep space communication ...
NASA's spacecraft is about to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light day from Earth.
Footage from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope that celebrates 35 years in space. Images of Mars, planetary nebula NGC 2899, ...
On November 29, 1969, the first Australian satellite launched. It was called the Weapons Research Establishment Satellite.
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...