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

Voyager 1’s long silence and sudden return to form have been dramatic enough without any help from science-fiction headlines.

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

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. Mission specialists have tried to delay the ...

Launched with 1970s technology, the Voyager probes have been traveling through space for nearly 50 years. This video reveals ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not used ...

The mission of one of NASA's twin Voyager space probes has been in peril for months as the space agency has been unable to receive usable data from the craft launched 46 years ago to explore the far ...

It’s a critical time for companies competing to develop a commercial successor to the International Space Station. NASA is ...

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. Reading time 3 minutes The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space ...

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This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...