NASA’s Voyager 1 will soon reach one light-day from Earth, highlighting humanity’s most distant spacecraft and the vast scale ...

At the farthest edge of the Sun’s influence, the Voyager probes have stumbled into something that sounds almost mythic: a sheath of gas heated to tens of thousands of degrees, a kind of invisible ...

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 ...

By November 2026, the spacecraft will become the first ever to reach a distance of one light-day from our planet—a staggering ...

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...

(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, ...

The Golden Record carried by Voyager 1 and 2. Photographs of Jupiter by Voyager 1 on March 24, 1979 and Uranus by Voyager 2 on January 24, 1986. Photo Illustration by Jesse Barber, National Geographic ...

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 ...

And even if they were to happen across the probes, finding a way for aliens to discover where and when they were made is not ...

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, Voyager 1 is ...