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 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth. The new milestone will be achieved when it takes 24 hours for radio ...

Nearly 46 years after their launch, Voyager 1 and 2 will likely soon reach the end of their scientific mission. NASA recently lost contact with Voyager 2 after sending it a bad command by mistake.

At the edge of our solar system, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has detected a stunning “wall of fire,” a boundary where ...

Almost 45 years after their launch, Voyager 1 and 2 are still operating. But with power dwindling, the probes may soon reach the end of their scientific mission. Here are 18 pictures the probes took ...

On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe into space with the aim of studying the outer planets. Voyager 1 launched a couple of weeks after Voyager 2, and both probes have flown to the ...

In this episode, Ray kicks things off with NASA’s Voyager mission uncovering extreme plasma temperatures—up to 50,000 Kelvin—at the edge of our solar ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth. Engineers are currently ...

Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space. The NASA spacecraft, which left Earth on a September morning 36 years ago, has traveled farther than anyone, or anything, in history. Now, it’s in the space ...

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, embarking on the longest journey in human history. The twin robotic probes Voyager 1 and 2 were sent out during a grand conjunction of the four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — ...