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

Voyager 1 keeps moving farther from Earth than any human-made object. Launched in 1977, it flew by Jupiter and Saturn, sending back images and informa.

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Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, the ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, two spacecraft that would travel farther than any human-made objects had ever gone. Meant to explore the outer planets and carry Earth’s story into ...

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 ...

Nearly 50 years after launch, Voyager 1 continues to rewrite humanity’s understanding of space — and in 2026, it will mark yet another first by reaching a distance where Earth is a full day away at ...