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

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

SYFY’s The Ark (streaming now on Peacock!) imagines a future, about a century from now, in which humans are travelling to another star system for the first time. When and if that actually happens in ...

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

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA has decided to turn off one of Voyager 2’s five remaining ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...

NASA just brought Voyager 1’s dead thrusters back to life—right before the spacecraft goes quiet for nearly two years. "It's kind of like losing a best friend." The twin probes should operate for ...

Ed Stone has held a lot of jobs in the past 40 years, both at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech, but there’s one he’s not giving up: project scientist for the Voyager 1 and 2 space ...

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