In late 2026, NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft will reach an impressive milestone. The probe is set to become the first spacecraft to reach a distance of one light day from our planet. Voyager 1 is ...

On Sept. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 began its epic journey through deep space with a glorious morning launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Voyager 1 initially launched on a mission to explore the outer ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that ...

Far beyond the orbit of Pluto, a spacecraft the size of a small car has started speaking in riddles. Voyager 1, humanity’s most distant emissary, spent months transmitting data that looked less like a ...

This image shows NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft exploring a new region in our solar system, the “magnetic highway.” (Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech) Scientists are calling this region the “magnetic highway” ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power. When you purchase through links on ...

It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as a light-day. It'll take Voyager 1, the American spacecraft moving at 10.6 miles per second, more than 49 years ...

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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(CNN) — Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, ...