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

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’s long silence and sudden return to form have been dramatic enough without any help from science-fiction headlines.

Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.

A faint sound described as a 'ghostly signal’ by global news was detected near Voyager 1. The spacecraft is currently far ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct.

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

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