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 ...

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

NASA is shutting down systems of the Voyager probes to save dwindling power. The probes are flagging after 45 years — the move is a way of keeping them going up until 2030. Voyager 1 and 2, launched ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

NASA engineers have succeeded in breathing new life into Voyager 1, the spacecraft launched in 1977 and once again communicating after it went silent seven months ago. But now comes another challenge: ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, the ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, two spacecraft that would travel farther than any human-made objects had ever gone. Meant to explore the outer planets and carry Earth’s story into ...