and stock image of the solar system (inset). Voyager 1 briefly lost contact with NASA due to a radio issue. NASA artist's concept of a Voyager spacecraft in deep space (main) and stock image of ...

Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause ... “It’s a relic of the environment the solar system was born out of,” Rankin says of the interstellar medium. Within it are energetic atomic fragments ...

Voyager 1′s odyssey began in 1977, when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets of the solar system. After beaming back dazzling postcard views ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the oldest and most distant probes built that are still active. They are also the only probes to have left our solar system and venture into the wider expanses of space.