At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that ...

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

After nearly half a century in flight and more than 16.1 billion miles on the odometer, Voyager 1 is edging toward a symbolic ...

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

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 ...

The summer of 1977 was a great time to be a space nerd. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was a summer blockbuster. NASA was testing its futuristic Space Shuttle in the Mojave Desert. And, on August 2 ...

NASA engineers have come up with a power-saving strategy to eke more time—and more science—out of the Voyager probes, humanity’s longest-running spacecraft, as they continue venturing into unexplored ...

At this time next year, NASA's probe New Horizons will fly by the planet-like object Pluto and discover more about the icy ball. The last time scientists reached for a major solar system body was ...

A scrambled computer signal helped NASA engineers resume data transmission from the distant Voyager 1, a spacecraft that was launched in 1977 and now, 15 billion miles from home, is the farthest a ...