In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science ...

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’s long, unsettling silence has finally been broken, but not with the clean engineering data mission controllers had hoped for. After months of corrupted signals and dead air, the most ...

The Golden Record consists of 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music. J Marshall - Tribaleye Images / Alamy “I ...

Voyager 1 is one of humanity's greatest achievements in space travel. This spacecraft was launched by NASA in September 1977 on a one-way trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Originally, it ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This 40th anniversary box set of ...