As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

(CNN) — Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, ...

Voyager 1’s sudden return to coherent communication has turned a near-elegy for the spacecraft into a fresh scientific mystery, as engineers confront strange gaps and glitches in the data streaming ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

Nearly half a century after it left Earth, a battered spacecraft built with 1970s electronics is closing in on a frontier no human machine has ever crossed. The probe is not only venturing deeper into ...