As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that ...

(CNN) — Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

Voyager 1’s sudden return to coherent communication has turned a near-elegy for the spacecraft into a fresh scientific mystery, as engineers confront strange gaps and glitches in the data streaming ...

Mankind has been sending animals into space since long before the first human being reached the milestone. Monkeys, dogs, and chimpanzees were launched into space to assess whether a person could ...

From a return of humans to lunar orbit, to Japan's first crack at Mars, advanced space travel and exploration is set to ...

A small space telescope with the eyes of a giant will spend the next year studying the planets around distant stars, and the University of Arizona will serve as mission control. The refrigerator-sized ...

Nearly half a century after it left Earth, a battered spacecraft built with 1970s electronics is closing in on a frontier no human machine has ever crossed. The probe is not only venturing deeper into ...