Nearly 50 years after it left Earth, a small spacecraft launched to tour the outer planets is about to cross a distance marker no human-made object has ever reached. The milestone is not really about ...

In the silent, freezing expanse of interstellar space, a small spacecraft launched in the era of disco and analog tape has just achieved a feat once thought to belong only to science fiction. NASA’s ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not used ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Voyager 1, which has traveled further from Earth than any other ...

NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from almost 16 billion miles away. The farthest human-made object, Voyager 1, was ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 is on a fraught and unknowable journey into deep space. Some 14.6 billion miles from Earth, it and its sister craft, Voyager 2, are the furthest human-made objects from our planet, ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 for what were meant to be four-year missions. For over 46 years, the pair have ...