Voyager 1 is one of humanity's greatest achievements in space travel. This spacecraft was launched by NASA in September 1977 on a one-way trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Originally, it ...

On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes ...

You’ve got to love technology. Thanks to space exploration, we’re given an inside look at the planets like we’d never be able to see them. Jupiter's Great Red Spot viewed by Voyager 1. Last year, NASA ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach one light-day from Earth in November 2026, emphasising the immense scale of ...

Bob’s Blog: "It's been a profound experience to actually feel how slow we are by watching myself grow old as we take our first baby steps among the stars" ...

After nearly half a century in flight and more than 16.1 billion miles on the odometer, Voyager 1 is edging toward a symbolic threshold that no other human-made object has approached. I see that ...

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Voyager 1 has finally returned usable data ...

It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and Saturn, while ...

After months of challenging trouble-shooting and suspenseful waiting, Voyager 1 is once again talking to Earth. The aging NASA spacecraft, about 24 billion kilometers from home, began transmitting ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...

If you tried to start a car that’s been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up ...