Before it went offline, Voyager 1 had been studying an anomalous disturbance in the magnetic field and plasma particles in interstellar space. “Nothing else is getting launched to go out there ...

It's trailing Voyager 1, which reached interstellar space in 2012. Interstellar space is the vast mostly emptiness between star systems. According to NASA, the Voyagers are still technically in ...

In the late 1970s, scientists started thinking about interstellar craft powered by not by chemical or nuclear processes but by “propellantless” systems. One of the most promising ideas is for ...

Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (Photo by NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Another ...

All it took was for the ground team to send an interstellar "shout" across more ... Australia sent out a message it hoped would somehow reach the craft and command it to correct its antenna ...

However, it was never designed to be an interstellar craft. Voyager 1 is currently 11.7 billion miles from Earth, and is trundling along at just 38,000 mph (61,000kmh), less than 1 per cent of the ...

Far beyond the farthest planets of the solar system, more than 7 billion miles from Earth, a silent spacecraft named Pioneer 10 is speeding into interstellar space, where the sun is merely another ...

and the emission from an interstellar craft “based on higher energy processes such as fission, fusion, or antimatter”. The list of technosignatures submitted in the paper is not complete and ...