It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
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Voyager 1: World’s farthest spacecraft nears historic one-light-day from Earth
Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.
NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe will continue its almost half-century of service by delivering yet another milestone.
April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to honor and respect our precious planetary home and its immeasurable beauty, ...
As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...
Members of NASA's SPHEREx mission team celebrated Earth Day and the recent launch of the astrophysics observatory by ringing the closing bell for the New York Stock Exchange on April 22, 2025. This ...
For NASA, this weekend is special. Sunday marks the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing — humanity's first steps on another world — July 20, 1969. As the only space agency on Earth able to ...
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One NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to launch to ISS aboard Soyuz MS-28 on Thanksgiving Day
The Soyuz MS-28 will carry NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Mikaev and veteran Sergey ...
While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...
This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...
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