In November 2026, NASA's Voyager 1 will reach an incredible milestone: one light-day from Earth, meaning its signals will take a full 24 hours to travel back home. Nearly 50 years after launch, ...

The symbolic nature of Voyager 1 crossing 1 light-day does not have much significance for operations. NASA expects Voyager 1 ...

Nearly half a century ago, a spacecraft roughly the size of a small car set off from the Florida coast atop a rocket to begin what was supposed to be a five-year journey. This week, NASA announced it ...

Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object we have ever sent into space, and in just a few months, it will cross a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 1’s signal now takes nearly a full day to reach Earth as it pushes farther into the vast unknown of interstellar space. | ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...

NASA engineers are working to keep the Voyager mission alive as it cruises through interstellar space, opting to shut down components of the spacecraft to save power. Engineers at NASA’s Jet ...

NASA is seeking suggestions from the public for a message to beam far, far out into space to the probe Voyager 1 in time for the 40th anniversary of its launch. The US space agency wants input via ...

On April 17, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or ...

NASA has shut down one of the science instruments on board the iconic Voyager 1 space probe in an effort to extend the life of humanity's first interstellar vehicle. The decision was made as power ...