You may have heard that Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System. And that it hasn’t. This is a chronicle of that probe’s greatest journey in headlines, including a few of our own.
December 8, 2011
NASA’s Voyager 1 has reached the very fringes of our solar system, and is preparing to leave for good [io9]
June 13, 2012
Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is *This Close* to Leaving Our Solar System [The Atlantic]
December 13, 2012
Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system, but the journey continues [The Conversation]
Mar 20, 2013
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Left the Solar System (Update: No We Haven’t) [Gizmodo]
Report: Humanity Leaves the Solar System — Or Maybe Not [TIME]
Voyager 1 zips into solar system dispute [USA Today]
Voyager Solar System ‘exit’ debated [BBC News]
NASA: Voyager 1 Has Not Left Our Solar System — Yet [Mashable]
March 22, 2013
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April 13, 2014
Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System [The Omega, the student news site of Oratory Prep]
May 12, 2013
Recent Voyager 1 data indicate that on 25 August 2012 at a distance of 121.7 AU from the Sun, sudden and unprecedented intensity changes were observed in anomalous and galactic cosmic rays [Geophysical Research Letters]
June 27, 2013
NASA’s distant scout: Voyager 1 reaches edge of solar system [Computerworld]
NASA confirms Voyager 1 has left the solar system [circa]
Aug 15, 2013
Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System, Says New Study [University of Maryland]
Voyager left solar system last year, new research shows [Reuters]
Debate roils: Has NASA’s Voyager spaceship left our solar system — or not? [Network World]
August 16, 2013
Paper: Voyager 1 Leaves Solar System [Voice of America]
August 22, 2013
Magnetic bubbles may mean Voyager 1 has left the Solar System [Nature]
Sept 12, 2013
It’s Official: Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System [Gizmodo]
Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space [NASA]
In a Breathtaking First, NASA’s Voyager 1 Exits the Solar System [The New York Times]
Voyager Has Left The Solar System (This Time For Real!) [NPR]
Voyager 1 really has left the solar system… probably [Ars Technica]
September 13, 2013
Stop Saying Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System [Motherboard]
September 16, 2013
Voyager 1 Leaves Solar System [The Onion]
October 2, 2013
Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system [CNN]
December 3, 2013
Voyager May Still Be Inside The Solar System [Inside Science]
July 8, 2014
To infinity and beyond! Voyager 1 is indeed in interstellar space [ZDNet]
July 9, 2014
Solar ‘tsunami’ helps Nasa confirm that Voyager 1 has made it into interstellar space [The Daily Mail]
July 11, 2014
Nasa confirms that the Voyager 1 probe has entered interstellar space (again) [The Independent]
July 23, 2014
Scientists doubt whether Voyager 1 really left the solar system [Times of India]
Voyager spacecraft might not have reached interstellar space [American Geophysical Union]