He thinks there is a magnetic edge to the solar system, and until Voyager sees a change in the magnetic field, it hasn't left the solar system. He's hoping that change will come in the next few years.

A re-interpretation of Voyager 1 data is refuelling the debate over whether the spacecraft has truly left the cozy confines of our solar system. According to a new University of Maryland study, it ...

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 (Sept. 12) in the journal Science reports.

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before. Thirty-six years after it rocketed away from Earth, the plutonium-powered spacecraft has escaped ...

So if Voyager 1 has indeed left the building, the shape of the door by which it exited isn't quite what we expected. The Solar System is dominated by the Sun, both gravitationally and ...

Voyager 1 was launched in September of 1977 - and now nearly 36 years later, it's on the cusp of being the first human-made object to ever leave our solar system.Scientists at NASA believe it's ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Voyager 1 appears to have at long last left our solar system and entered interstellar space, says a University of Maryland-led team of researchers.

It was welcome news to Earthlings: The Voyager 1 spacecraft had seemingly crossed a momentous threshold and become the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. “Voyager 1 has left the ...

For the past decade or so, we here at NPR have been waiting for the Voyager 1 spacecraft to leave the solar system. So we were shocked to see new research suggesting it already had, over a year ago.

Artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) “It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar ...

While Voyager 1 may have left the solar system as most people understand it, it still has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years to go before bidding adieu to the last icy bodies that make up our ...

After months of back and forth, scientists now agree that NASA’s Voyager 1 has become the first manmade object to leave the solar system. And it only took 36 years to make the 12 billion mile ...