Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...
The two probes have left the solar system and are still collecting data from the interstellar environment—but their atomic ...
Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus ... In plans highlighted in a 2023 report from Scientific American, NASA would launch a spacecraft by 2032 that would orbit the planet ...
Voyager 1, the machine created by human hands that is farthest from Earth, has been exploring the cosmos for nearly 50 years.
NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...
The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is 15 billion miles away from Earth. It stopped sending data but NASA managed to get it ...
When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.
Voyager 1′s odyssey began in 1977, when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets of the solar system. After beaming back dazzling postcard views ...
Related: NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles It's not the first time Voyager 1 has experienced communication problems; the spacecraft has certainly been showing its age.