https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_probe
An interstellar probe is a space probe that has left—or is expected to leave—the Solar System and enter interstellar space, which is typically defined as the region beyond the heliopause. It also refers to probes capable of reaching other star systems.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/
At the time, it was at a distance of about 122 AU, or about 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun. This kind of interstellar exploration is the ultimate goal of the Voyager Interstellar Mission. Voyager 2, which is traveling in a different direction from Voyager 1, crossed the heliopause into interstellar space on November 5, 2018.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1048358753/if-nasa-green-lights-this-interstellar-mission-it-could-last-100-years
Now a team of scientists is hoping to take the next interstellar mission even farther. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, have been traveling for so long that they've left our solar

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59725597
Whether the interstellar probe gets the funding it needs to get off the ground (about $1.6bn; £1.2bn) will depend on the wider support of the solar and space physics community in the US and what

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Probe_(spacecraft)
Interstellar Probe (ISP) is a proposed NASA space probe designed to explore and characterize the heliosphere and interstellar space.The study was originally proposed in 2018 by NASA for the Applied Physics Laboratory.It would have a baseline launch between 2036 and 2041. The probe would launch on a direct hyperbolic trajectory to encounter Jupiter after six to seven months, after which the

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA's longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. Read more This is a real-time indicator of Voyager 1's distance from Earth in astronomical units (AU) and either miles (mi) or kilometers (km).

https://www.space.com/interstellar-probe-johns-hopkins-apl-nasa-sls
Interstellar Probe is an entirely new class of mission designed to operate well beyond the Kuiper Belt. The 50 year period is a target for 1000 AU and based on optimistic ideas about how to find

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-spacecraft-embarks-on-historic-journey-into-interstellar-space/
NASA. Sep 12, 2013. RELEASE 13-280. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas

https://heliophysics.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/heliophysics/resources/presentations/2021-HelioSS-Provornikova-InterstellarProbe1.pdf
The First Step: Interstellar Probe is a mission concept through the boundaries of the heliosphere, in to the Local Interstellar Medium. Not A Starship: Uses available or near-term technologies to achieve asymptotic speeds larger than those of past missions. The Science: Our heliosphere as a habitable astrosphere, the unexplored interstellar

https://www.astronomy.com/science/interstellar-probe-mission-would-go-twice-as-fast-and-far-as-the-voyagers/
The goal is to get into interstellar space, which we think begins roughly around 120, 130 AU, as shown by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. With the speeds we're talking about, we think we can get

https://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/
Interstellar Probe is a pragmatic near-term mission concept that would enable groundbreaking science using technology that is near-launch-ready now. Flying the farthest and the fastest, it would venture into the space between us and neighboring stars. In an epic 50-plus-year journey, Interstellar Probe will explore questions about our place in

https://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Science/
An interstellar probe would answer a wide range of questions from many different disciplines. The brief list below links to more detailed descriptions for each of the proposed topics, including specific questions and objectives for each field of inquiry. We have also provided links to the webinars previously presented by the Interstellar Probe

https://www.astronomy.com/science/voyager-whats-next-for-nasas-interstellar-probes/
The outer edge of the Oort Cloud may be so distant that it take the Voyager probes 30,000 years or more to completely cross it, according to NASA. After that, in about 40,000 years, Voyager 1

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2021/04/27/nasas-new-voyager-7-things-to-know-about-the-50-year-interstellar-probe-mission-to-burst-our-cosmic-bubble/
The Interstellar Probe will reach 1,000 AU and enter the interstellar medium—the space between the stars. 4. It could launch in 2030 and last for over 50 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59725597
Whether the interstellar probe gets the funding it needs to get off the ground (about $1.6bn; £1.2bn) will depend on the wider support of the solar and space physics community in the US and what

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/building-sails-for-interstellar-probes-will-be-tough-but-not-impossible/
For instance, it would take NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft—which launched in 1977 and reached interstellar space in 2012—about 75,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri (if the probe were headed in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoNjXehN-QA
Traveling far beyond the Sun's sphere of influence, Interstellar Probe would be one of the boldest moves in space exploration to date. Flying farther and fas

https://spacenews.com/nasas-interstellar-mapping-and-acceleration-probe-passes-system-integration-review/
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations this week at Johns Hopkins Applied

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-nasa-interstellar-probe-heliosphere-region.html
This probe would take measurements of the plasma and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium and image the heliosphere from the outside. To prepare, NASA asked for input from more than 1,000

https://www.space.com/32551-breakthrough-starshot-interstellar-spacecraft-infographic.html
The probes would be accelerated to 20 percent of the speed of light in about two minutes (an acceleration of 60,000 times that of the Earth's gravity). This velocity would get the probe past the

https://www.space.com/interstellar-probes-microbes-other-stars
Tiny picogram probes, even smaller than this concept of a Breakthrough Starshot interstellar nanocraft, could potentially build their own communications equipment with microbes, one scientist says

https://www.science.org/content/article/voyager-steroids-mission-probe-mysterious-region-beyond-solar-system
Researchers are pushing NASA to build the $3.1 billion Interstellar Probe (IP), which would explore the plasma environment of the Sun and interstellar space. It would follow in the footsteps of Voyager 1 and 2, which NASA launched in 1977. By most accounts, the twin probes crossed the heliopause into interstellar space a decade ago.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/voyager-probes-are-old-but-still-doing-science
The Voyager probes, humanity's farthest-travelling spacecraft, are getting on in years, but their work is far from over. ... We weren't approved for a 30-plus-year interstellar mission. In 1990

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_hypothesis
The Berserker hypothesis, also known as the deadly probes scenario, is the idea that humans have not yet detected intelligent alien life in the universe because it has been systematically destroyed by a series of lethal Von Neumann probes. The hypothesis is named after the Berserker series of novels (1963-2005) written by Fred Saberhagen.. The hypothesis has no single known proposer, and

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18160
Cosmic rays travelling through interstellar space have their propagation directions repeatedly scattered by fluctuating interstellar magnetic fields. The nature of this scattering is a major unsolved problem in astrophysics, one that has resisted solution largely due to a lack of direct observational constraints on the scattering rate. Here we show that very high-energy $γ$-ray emission from

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-nasa-juno-probe-lava-lakes.html
New findings from NASA's Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes are on Jupiter's moon Io and include first-time insights into the volcanic processes at work there.