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

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

NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe will continue its almost half-century of service by delivering yet another milestone.

In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible ...

After five months of silence, NASA’s Voyager 1 is once again transmitting data from the edge of interstellar space. In an official update published by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on April ...

How much further can Voyager 1 travel before we lose contact or it runs out of energy? What would we see if we turned the ...

Voyager 1 is one of humanity's greatest achievements in space travel. This spacecraft was launched by NASA in September 1977 on a one-way trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Originally, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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