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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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