Bolted to the sides of two spacecraft now drifting far beyond the edge of the solar system are two identical gold-plated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA/JPL-Caltech If there are indeed other beings in our galaxy, and they are sophisticated enough to traverse the expanse of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Golden Record carried by Voyager 1 and 2. Photographs of Jupiter by Voyager 1 on March 24, 1979 and Uranus by Voyager 2 on ...

“When you’ve got the chance to talk for the last time to craft that are going to outlive the Earth, why wouldn’t you?” (Image Lukas Balandis) As humans we all connect with the Voyager Golden Record, ...

The Golden Record consists of 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music. J Marshall - Tribaleye Images / Alamy “I ...

NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of ...

If there are indeed other beings in our galaxy, and they are sophisticated enough to traverse the expanse of space, their very first encounter with humanity might not be with a human. Rather, they ...