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

The switch should keep the probe, which launched in 1977, alive for another three years. Together, Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled further than any other spacecraft. Voyager 2's demise has been ...

Elas foram projetadas para durar cinco anos. Mas seguem funcionando, e viajando, há quase meio século – já estão no espaço interestelar, a mais de 20 ...

Martian dust seems to have claimed another victim: China confirmed it is unable to reestablish contact with its Zhurong rover, which has been scraping around in the dirt of the Red Planet since it ...

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched a few weeks apart in 1977 and were given the monumental task of performing an unprecedented “grand tour” of the solar system’s giant planets. Then in August 2012, ...

NASA just brought Voyager 1’s dead thrusters back to life—right before the spacecraft goes quiet for nearly two years. "It's kind of like losing a best friend." The twin probes should operate for ...

A sonda norte-americana Voyager 1, lançada em 1977, saiu do sistema solar, tornando-se assim o primeiro objeto enviado pelo Homem a atingir o espaço intersideral. Segundo cálculos publicados pela ...

Here is the good news: Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have entered interstellar space. The bad: When they finally reach another star system, you’ll likely be long gone. But that shouldn’t stop you from ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the ...

Humankind has now spent an entire decade exploring interstellar space. On Aug. 25, 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft was 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun and scientists determined ...

In May 2022, Voyager 1, the farthest human-made object from Earth, started sending back nonsense data. After decades of smooth communication, the sudden shift worried NASA scientists. Operating 24 ...