The two probes have left the solar system and are still collecting data from the interstellar environment—but their atomic ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

Voyager 1, the machine created by human hands that is farthest from Earth, has been exploring the cosmos for nearly 50 years.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this probe flew by the ice giant, providing ...

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 ...

The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar system – has always been something of a mystery to astronomers. But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986, ...

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.

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 ...

Now, researchers say that the data could have been affected by a solar wind event Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent In 1986, Voyager 2 took this image of Uranus during its flyby. NASA / JPL ...

It also sent back some mysteries. One of these came in 1986, when the Voyager 2 probe — one of a duo of Voyager craft sent into deep space — journeyed by the ice giant Uranus, a strange world ...