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

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, during a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once ...

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 one of humanity's greatest achievements in space travel. This spacecraft was launched by NASA in September 1977 on a one-way trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Originally, it ...

SPACE (KXAN) — One of only two spacecraft built by humans to have left our solar system is alive and kicking. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced April 22 that Voyager 1 is sending engineering ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...

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 ...

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light ...

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