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

Bolted to the side of each of the two Voyager spacecraft is a gold-plated copper phonograph record, sealed in an aluminum ...

The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now over 15.9 billion miles away. This spacecraft has ventured into interstellar ...

As of September 5, 2026, NASA’s legendary Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling through the cosmic void for exactly 49 years.

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...