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 ...

Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.

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 ...

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

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

An artist's concept of the Voyager spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech The Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos for 47 years, collecting precious data beyond the solar system. All that ...

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 ...

NASA’s beloved Voyager 1 mission is back to normal science operations for the first time in more than six months, according to agency personnel. The announcement was made after NASA received data from ...

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