Researchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about ...

The fact that the Voyager spacecraft are the only two human-made objects to make it to interstellar space means that the data they collect is unique. Thus, the decision to switch off any ...

Interstellar space communication. One of the most important things about these particular probes right now is that they are in interstellar space, meaning that they are indeed beyond our solar system ...

For nearly 50 years, Nasa’s twin Voyager spacecraft have just kept swimming – or zooming through space, collecting data from interstellar space farther than any other mission. NASA is trying ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring space beyond the solar system.

The twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are currently in interstellar space, or the space between stars. Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiece to study the sun's protective bubble ...

Launched in 1977 and carrying the same suite of ten instruments, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 reached interstellar space in 2012 and 2018, respectively. It is little wonder that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ...

Billions of miles from Earth, at the edge of interstellar space, a long-dormant part of a far-flung spacecraft came to life this week. After 37 years of disuse, a set of thrusters aboard Voyager 1 ...

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 ...