NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will achieve an extraordinary milestone, becoming the first human-made object to reach a full ...

Pixar trades soul-searching for star-seeking in its most whimsical — and least self-serious — original cartoon in over a ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

"Elio" is as much a classic Pixar story about trying to fit in as much as it is a classic Pixar story about friendship transcending differences. It's cute and funny, and charming and really takes the ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers. The European Space Agency's big radio antenna in Spain beamed the ...

Strauss' "Blue Danube" is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth.

Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose “Blue Danube” graced Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi opus “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on Oct. 25, 1825, ...

UPDATE: 1/30/24 3:30PM: This article has been updated to include Ann Druyan’s role in the Voyager Golden Record project. We regret the omission. The PopSci team has tested hundreds of products ...

Voyager 1 became the first human spacecraft to enter ... Should they run into any extraterrestrial neighbors, the Golden Record is meant to identify what they are, where they came from, who ...

In 1990, Voyager 1 transmitted the famous “Pale Blue ... both Voyager spacecraft also carry copies of the “Golden Records,” gold plated copper discs containing sounds and images from Earth ...