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

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

As NASA’s Voyager 1 travels further into the cosmos, it’s on the brink of a new, groundbreaking milestone. In late 2026, it ...

Could the most distant human‑made object still be talking to Earth when it’s a full light day away? By late 2026, NASA’s Voyager 1 will cross that unprecedented threshold a distance of about 16 ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. "All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution ...

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of ...

And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went through a complete communication blackout; now, after weeks of quietness, ...

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 ...

Way out in interstellar space, Voyager 1 is roaming where no human has ever been, revealing secrets of our universe more than 15 billion miles away. Today, the story of its nearly 50-year journey ...

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