Following in the wake of the original Golden Records, a new deep-space delivery hopes to introduce a ‘mostly harmless’ humanity to alien life ...

Voyager 1 left Earth in 1977 as a bright symbol of optimism, a compact machine carrying humanity’s sounds and sketches into the dark. Nearly half a century later, its story has taken a darker turn, ...

Louis Armstrong performing "Melancholy Blues," Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, and panpipes from Peru are etched among the cacophony of Earth sounds on the gold-plated records attached to Voyager 1 ...

Voyager 1 and 2 are running on less power than a light bulb, 15 billion miles from Earth. This is the story of their fight for survival. Learn how nuclear batteries called RTGs have powered them for ...