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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...