Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, and it is now so far away that talking to it is becoming painfully slow.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now ...

In 2026, Voyager 1, humanity's farthest reaching Energizer Bunny of a probe, will travel toward an almost comprehensible ...

On September 5, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe into space with the aim of studying the outer planets. Voyager 1 launched a couple of weeks after Voyager 2, and both probes have flown to the ...

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located in ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration NASA engineers have ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, has been on an extraordinary journey for 47 years, marking it as the longest-serving mission in history. Recently, the spacecraft overcame a significant ...

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 ...

"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 ...

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar system, ...