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 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.

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

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, ...

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. However, both space probes are reaching the end of their service lives. NASA announced that engineers ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...

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 ...

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long ...

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 ...

Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, in the nick of time before a planned communications blackout. A side effect of ...