NASA is ready to call it: Voyager 1 has finally entered into interstellar space, for real this time. And, surprise, the satellite left for the interstellar a year ago, according to an analysis of the ...

The journey of the 50-year-old NASA’s Voyager 1 was nothing short of surprising, as it remained functional years later and against all odds. A recent discovery found that the probe survived an ...

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to interstellar space, Voyager 1 has stumbled into something that sounds more like science fiction than plasma physics: a blisteringly hot ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power. When you purchase through links on ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Voyager 1 is going, going … not quite gone.

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 ...

Sounds transmitted by Voyager I have convinced NASA scientists it has reached interstellar space after 36 years and 12 billion miles -- an enormous achievement for human kind. But that doesn't mean it ...

On the 35th birthday of Voyager 2, a moment to pause and praise the old technology that is now at the frontier of space exploration, literally. Think about the different pieces of consumer technology ...

This week marks 48 years since the Sept. 5, 1977, launch of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Jupiter and Saturn up close. Nearly a half-century later, Voyager 1 and ...