Nearly 50 years after it left Earth, a small spacecraft launched to tour the outer planets is about to cross a distance marker no human-made object has ever reached. The milestone is not really about ...

Representative image of a radio telescope. This stock photograph does not show NASA’s Deep Space Network. Photo by Pexels User on Pexels. Voyager 1 is now so distant that every exchange with Earth ...

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. | ...

As of September 5, 2026, NASA’s legendary Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling through the cosmic void for exactly 49 years. Launched from Cape Canaveral in the autumn of 1977, ..

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's concept shows Voyager 1 entering interstellar space, or the space between stars. - NASA/JPL-Caltech Voyager 1, NASA's ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is closing in on a distance milestone that puts the scale of deep-space communication into sharp relief. On Nov. 18, 2026, at 2:16:07 a.m. PST, the probe will sit ...