Tuesday, November 17, 2026 5:30pm
NASA’s Voyager 1 will reach a one light-day distance from Earth, an extraordinary milestone marking 16 billion miles of exploration and nearly fifty years of discovery on November 18, 2026, at 2:16am PT. This is the farthest a human-made object has ever ventured. This means even traveling at the speed of light – more than 186,000 miles a second – it would take a whole day to reach Voyager 1 from Earth. It has taken Voyager 1 over 49 years, traveling at about 33,000 miles per hour, to reach this...