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

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, during a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once ...

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

You’ve got to love technology. Thanks to space exploration, we’re given an inside look at the planets like we’d never be able to see them. Jupiter's Great Red Spot viewed by Voyager 1. Last year, NASA ...

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 ...

Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.

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 ...

DALLAS — NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again. Voyager 1's four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is transmitting data again after a technical issue in November. Voyager 1 is drifting through the space between star systems on a mission to collect information about ...

Update: Voyager is officially “the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space,” according to NASA. Even the spaciest of space nuts could be forgiven for being a little confused about ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes ...