Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most ...

Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) is the titular extraterrestrial of Resident Alien (streaming now on Peacock) and he’s all alone (aside from a couple notable exceptions) on our planet. In the Season 2 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Not bad for a 46-year-old spacecraft. NASA’s Voyager 1 is back in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Voyager 1 was launched into space in 1977 and has been on a one-way journey ever since, pushing the boundaries of how far a machine built by ...

Voyagers 1 and 2 are exploring the mysterious region between stars called interstellar space. NASA launched the twin probes in 1977 for a five-year mission to trek across the solar system. Nearly 46 ...

Cape Canaveral (WHTM) It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to planet Jupiter and points ...

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...

Ed Stone has held a lot of jobs in the past 40 years, both at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech, but there’s one he’s not giving up: project scientist for the Voyager 1 and 2 space ...

Nearly 50 years after they were first launched, Voyager 1 and 2 are still traveling around interstellar space — though they've faced some setbacks over the years. Now, NASA has announced that the twin ...

This illustration shows the current positions of the Voyager missions with relation to the Sun. Currently considered outside the solar system, the spacecrafts will nonetheless take close to 300 years ...