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A probe from Earth has taken its first steps in interstellar space. After streaking through space for nearly 35 years, NASA's robotic Voyager 1 probe finally left the solar system in August 2012, a study published today ...

Two groups of astronomers have used data from ESO telescopes to make the best three-dimensional map yet of the central parts of the Milky Way. They have found that the inner regions take on a peanut-like, or X-shaped, ap...

Voyager 1 was able to record the sounds of interstellar space. This helped the Voyager science team calculate the density of interstellar plasma.

On the Voyager spacecraft are the famous Voyager Golden Records, which send messages from planet Earth to … whatever or whoever may find it in the future. In celebration of Voyager 1 making it into interstellar space (...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is humanity's first probe ever to reach interstellar space. See the major milestones of Voyager's trek to the void in this SPACE.com photo timeline.

The space agency's chief scientist, John Grunsfeld, puts a Voyager spin on the the 'Final Frontier' quote to open the press conference. On Sept. 12, 2013, NASA announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered interste...

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In a cosmically historic announcement, NASA says the most distant human made object, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is in interstellar space, the space between the stars, and has left our Solar System. It actually made the tra...

"It's kind of like landing on the moon. It's a milestone in history. Like all science, it's exploration. It's new knowledge." — Donald Gurnett. After endless speculation, guesswork and data interpretation over the past...

Sorry Kermit, no moon launch for you. A frog hopping along Virginia's eastern shore last Friday (Sept. 6) got more than it bargained for when a rocket carrying a moon-bound NASA spacecraft lifted off from the Wallops Fli...

Neil deGrasse Tyson, LeVar Burton, Wil Wheaton, Carl Sagan's son (who recorded 'Hello from the children of Earth' for the Golden Record) and others welcome the Voyager 1 spacecraft to interstellar space.

The process of selecting a site for NASA's next landing on Mars, planned for September 2016, has narrowed to four semifinalist sites located close together in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars, as seen in this space wa...

NASA's Voyager 1 probe left the solar system last August, researchers announced today (Sept. 12). SPACE.com caught up with Voyager project scientist Ed Stone to discuss Voyager 1's historic achievement and what's next fo...

If the top quark is not heavier than experiments currently suggest, a stranger-than-doomsday fate may await the cosmos -- disembodied brains and virtually anything else could one day randomly materialize into existence.

Over 34 hours of Hubble observation of Abell 1689 shows the gravitational lensing phenomenon produced by the cluster in greater detail. The blue streaks created by the phenomenon are distorted forms of galaxies behind th...

Space fans, rejoice! NASA is extending its social media reach by launching a new Instagram account, giving people the chance to share out-of-this-world photos on the go, according to agency officials.

ESA Science & Technology : This new image from Hubble is one of the best ever views of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689, and shows the phenomenon of gravitational lensing with unprecedented clarity. This cluster act...

Psst! Live in South Africa and read Universe Today? Then you might just get a peak at the Juno spacecraft as it receives a boost from our fair planet on the evening of October 9th, 2013. Launched from Cape Canaveral Air ...

Using data From ESA's CryoSat mission, an animation has been created showing sea ice thickness from October 2010 to April 2013. Scientists believe that the actual volume of ice may reach a new low in 2013.

NASA says it will hold a press conference today (Sept. 12) to discuss an apparently new development in the one of the agency's far-flung Voyager spacecraft at the edge of the solar system, and you can watch the announcem...

NASA's Florida visitor center has dedicated a time capsule filled with memorabilia related to the 30-year space shuttle program

Thanks to a new analysis of pictures obtained by a telescope in Chile, astronomers are gaining a better understanding of how the Milky Way formed and how our home galaxy has changed over the years. (...)Read the rest of ...