If you would like to get an idea of how fast the reach of humankind is accelerating, consider this. In 1783, only 230 years ago, the Montgolfier brothers gave a public demonstration of the world’s ...

When NASA’s twin Voyager probes left Earth in 1977, they carried computers weaker than a hand calculator and a modest goal of touring the outer planets. No one seriously expected them to redraw the ...

Nearly 50 years after launch, a pair of aging spacecraft have stumbled into one of the strangest regions ever measured in ...

Roger D. Launius savours a masterful account, by a veteran of interplanetary space science, of the Voyager probes' mission to the giant planets. Part memoir, part anecdotal history and part sermon on ...

The hotly contested question has been answered: Voyager 1 is humanity’s first object to enter interstellar space. The historic announcement came from NASA after a year of review into 2012 and 2013 ...

Humanity has another interstellar emissary. After launching in 1977, NASA’s trailblazing spacecraft Voyager 2 has finally escaped the heliosphere, the Sun’s protective bubble of charged particles. It ...

As a massive bubble encasing the solar system that stretches across tens of billions of miles and protects us from harmful interstellar radiation, there is a lot for us to learn about the heliosphere.

This month, for the first time in history, a probe built by humans left the confines of the solar system for the depths of interstellar space. NASA launched Voyager 1 in September 1977, when Jimmy ...

The Voyager team put the new data together with information from the other instruments onboard, they calculated the moment voyager 1 escaped the solar system occurred on or about 25 August, 2012.

When it comes to space exploration, no one has the Voyager missions beat. On October 5, NASA reported that their Voyager 2 spacecraft is nearing our heliosphere’s outer borders, and could soon enter ...

An Electric Sail (E-sail) propulsion study has been funded for a 2015 NAIC Phase II study. The international team includes: the inventor and patent holder of the E-Sail propulsion system (Dr. Pekka ...