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 the most distant human-made object, and it is now so far away that talking to it is becoming painfully slow.

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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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 ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

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