At its current speed, experts at NASA predict Voyager 1 will take three centuries to reach the Oort cloud. To get to the other side of the cloud would take another 30,000 years. Engineers predict ...

NASA's space probe "Voyager 1" recently passed the symbolic mark of 25 billion kilometers from Earth. This is according to the latest tracker data published live on the US space agency's website.

it takes nearly 23 hours for a message to get there – even at the speed of light – and another 23 hours for a response. On October 18, Voyager 1 missed its scheduled return call. NASA's Deep ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for ...

There are only two human spacecraft in interstellar space. And their fuel is dwindling. Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space.Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...

This was the first software update made to a spacecraft in interstellar space. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies ...

To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one scientific instrument on Voyager 1 and another on Voyager 2. The move will buy ...