It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.
As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...
Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, ...
Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, in the nick of time before a planned communications blackout. A side effect of ...
At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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