In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science ...

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.

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While the Voyager spacecraft are constantly traveling out of the Solar System, sometimes they are getting closer to Earth.

The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...

A software glitch is making NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft act a little bit haunted this Halloween season. On October 17, Voyager 1 switched its main radio transmitter to a different frequency, leaving ...

And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went through a complete communication blackout; now, after weeks of quietness, ...

Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth in 2026, marking a first for any spacecraft as it continues its journey through ...

It's been nearly 50 years since Voyager 1 launched, and it's about to reach a new milestone: It's now nearly 1 light-day away ...