It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

After nearly half a century of flight, Voyager 1 is closing in on a distance that once belonged purely to thought experiments: one full light-day from Earth. The tiny spacecraft, launched in the late ...

As NASA’s Voyager 1 travels further into the cosmos, it’s on the brink of a new, groundbreaking milestone. In late 2026, it ...

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...