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

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, during a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once ...

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

Almost 45 years after their launch, Voyager 1 and 2 are still operating. But with power dwindling, the probes may soon reach the end of their scientific mission. Here are 18 pictures the probes took ...

NASA has confirmed that after a pause in communications with Voyager 1 in late October, the spacecraft has regained its voice and resumed regular operations. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its ...

Agencies such as NASA are responsible for giving us a more detailed picture of space, literally in the case of technology such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The Voyager 1 space probe is the farthest human-made object in space. It launched in 1977 with a golden record on board that carried assorted sounds of our home planet: greetings in many different ...

What it is: Saturn, the seventh planet from the sun, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft The image was taken 9 million miles (15 million km) from Earth, just as Voyager 2 approached the ringed ...

Netherlands-based director Sander van den Berg has taken images from NASA's Cassini orbiter and Voyager spacecraft to create an amazing new video of Saturn entitled "Outer Space." At first, the ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light ...